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Golden Wedding – Mr & Mrs Jackson

May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 27th, 1944 Golden Wedding Fifty years happily married, 53 years down a coal mine and only a week’s illness in 78 years,...

Ambulance Success – “Specials” Shine

May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 6th, 1944 Ambulance Success Goldthorpe And Thurnscoe “Specials” Shine Thurnscoe and Goldthorpe Special Constables were members of the Doncaster Divisional team, winners...

Wedding – Merrill & Hocking

May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 6th, 1944 Wedding: Merrill and Hocking The marriage was solemnised at Goldthorpe Paish Church on Saturday of Miss Joyce Merrill, eldest daughter...

Marconigrams – May 20th, 1944

May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 20th, 1944 Marconigrams Eighteen defendants from Wombwell, Blacker Hill, Darfield and Great Houghton were fined 7s 6d each at Barnsley on Monday...

Montagu Hospital – The Week’s Casualty List

May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 27th, 1944 Montagu Hospital The Week’s Casualty List Wednesday – Cyril Shuttleworth, Cross Lane, Farnley, Leeds, foreign body in eye. George Hampshire, (15),...

Soldier – Clatworthy J. – Believed Killed

May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 13th, 1944 Believed Killed Guardsman J. Clatworthy of the Coldstream Guards, whose home address is 55, Frederick St., Goldthorpe, was reported missing...

Soldier – Howson J. – Died of Wounds

May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 27th, 1944 L/Cpl. J. Howson   Mrs. Howson of Castle Hill, Barnburgh, has received news from the War Office that her husband L/Cpl....

Marconigrams – May 06th, 1944

May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 6th, 1944 Marconigrams Sgt. John Chalmers, R.A.F., of Low Valley has been awarded the D.F.M. for his part in bringing safely...

Editorial – Neutrality

6 May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 6th, 1944 Neutrality Neutrality is not an absolute state. It has infinite variety.  The war has gone on long enough to demonstrate...

Editorial – Labour at Loggerheads

13 May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 13th, 1944 Labour at Loggerheads The Labour Party could hardly have chosen a less appropriate time to stage a political squabble. Mr....