South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 28 March 1942

Patriotic Family.

Five members of a well-known Swinton family are helping the war effort in a practical way.

The father, Mr. W. H. Hill, served in the last war, and joined up two months after the outbreak of the present conflict. He was sent to France in 1939, and was one of the last to be evacuated after Dunkirk.

His eldest son Ernest (24), is serving with the Royal Corps of Signals in Iraq, and previously served in India, while the second son, Herbert (20) joined the Military Police four months before war started, and was stationed at Coventry and Birmingham during the enemy air attacks on those cities.

Mr. Hill’s daughter, Elsie (22), volunteered for the W.A.A.F., but was rejected on medical grounds and is now working in an aircraft factory.

Her husband Gnr. T. Jackson, who is 23 is serving in the Royal Artillery. Both Mr. Hill and his sons were employed at Kilnhurst Colliery before Joining up.

Mrs. Hill told a reporter “I am proud of them all.”