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Sailor – Coates, Douglas – Serving with Naval Unit

April 1944
South Yorkshire Times, April 1st, 1944 Service Snaps              Douglas Coates (Swinton) Serving with a Naval unit attached to Combined Operations...

Soldier – Fletcher, Walter – With Eighth Army in Italy

April 1944
South Yorkshire Times, April 1st, 1944 Service Snaps               Walter Fletcher (Swinton) Lance Sergt. Walter Fletcher (25), R. A. youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Fletcher,...

Soldier – Ward, Frederick William – Swinton Officer’s T.D.

April 1944
South Yorkshire Times, April 8th, 1944 Swinton Officer's T.D. Lieut.-Colonel Frederick William Ward, only son of Mr. S. C. Ward, J.P., and Mrs. Ward, of Swinton...

Editorial – Waiting for the Zero Hour

1 April 1944
South Yorkshire Times April 01st 1944 Waiting for the Zero Hour Waiting for zero hour is always apt to be a trying experience. It tests the...

Editorial – Shadow and Substance

22 April 1944
South Yorkshire Times, April 22nd, 1944 Shadow and Substance Surely no campaign in the history of warfare has ever been so well advertised as the Second...

Editorial – Finance and the Future

29 April 1944
South Yorkshire Times April 29th 1944 Finance and the Future Sir John Anderson's Budget withheld the last straw. Our national economy is now so finely adjusted...

Golden Wedding – Mr & Mrs Parkin

May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 13th, 1944 Golden Wedding Mr. and Mrs. W. Parkin of 7a, Rockingham Road, Swinton, are celebrating their golden wedding on Sunday May...

Mr. W. H. Taylor – Head of Don Foundry

May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 6th, 1944 Mr. W. H. Taylor Head of Don Foundry The death of Mr. William Henry Taylor, founder and senior partner of the...

Obituary – George William Brears

May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 14th, 1944 Obituary – Brears Mr. George William Brears (61), licencee of the Butchers’ Arms, Swinton, died at his home last Thursday....

Cinema – Roxy – Sisters

May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 27th, 1944