Mexborough and Swinton Times, January 15, 1916

Missing in Serbia

Sergeant Frank Devine
( 5th Connaught Rangers)

Sgt Frank Devine, of 183, Queen St, Swinton, has been missing in Serbia since December 7, and further news of him is anxiously awaited.

Private J Bennett, of the same regiment, in a letter to Mr Devine, states that Sgt F Devine has been missing since the 7th, “when we were attacked by the Bulgarians and Germans. It was awful. I don’t know however I escape without getting hurt.

I inquired about Frank, and got to know he had got to a village a mile clear of the firing line, and he was all right then.

It was like murder. There must have been eight men to our one. We had been in the trenches eight days, and were just about done up with the cold weather. The enemy let us walk about anywhere for three days before they attacked us. We have now landed back in Salonica