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Nazi Air Force’s Busy Day – Planes Over British Coast
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 13 January 1940
Nazi Air Force's Busy Day
Planes Over British Coast
Soon Driven Off : No Bombs Dropped
Italian Volunteers...
Sailor – Viccars, Stanley – A Swinton Seaman
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 06 January 1940
A Swinton Seaman
A.B. Seaman Stanley Viccars, aged 22, a seaman gunner, only son of Mr. and...
Soldier – Kime F.R.– On Leave
Mexborough and Swinton Times January 20, 1940
0n Leave.
Driver F.R. Kime, of Queen Street, Swinton left on Wednesday night to return to France after spending...
Editorial – Frozen War
South Yorkshire Times, January 6th 1940
Frozen War
Our war is still frozen, and shows little sign at present of thawing. Here do we see...
Four Generations of Old South Yorkshire Family.
Mexborough and Swinton Times, February 24, 1940
Here are four generations of an old South Yorkshire family.
In the group are Mrs. Sam Oates, of 11...
Wedding – Harwood & White
Mexborough & Swinton Times, February 24, 1940
At Rawmarsh Church on Saturday the wedding took place of Miss Beatrice Annie Harwood, daughter of Mr and...
Soldier – Hindley, Grahame – Somewhere in England
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 17 February 1940
Service Snaps
Private Grahame Hindley, (19), youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Hindley, "Bellswain," Park Road,...
Soldier – Kelly, Sam – Football with the French
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 17 February 1940
Football with the French
Pte. Sam Kelly, who will be remembered by local sportsmen as a Mexborough...
Soldier – Mapplebeck A. – Boxer’s New Battles
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 17 February 1940
Boxer's New Battles
A South Yorkshire boxer who is 'making his mark "somewhere in England" is Lance...