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Soldier – Tyas, Norman – Military Medal
Mexborough and Swinton Times November 9, 1918
Bombardier Norman Tyas
Royal Field Artillery
Bombardier Tyas, 17 Spencer St, Wath Road, Swinton, has been awarded the Milltary Medal...
Victoria Cross – Awarded Posthumously to Thomas Norman Jackson
Mexborough and Swinton Times November 30, 1918
The Victoria Cross has been posthumously awarded to Private (A/Cpl) T.N Jackson, late Coldstream Gurads of Swinton.
The following...
Swinton Urban Council – Workmen Who Won’t Work.
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Friday 20 December 1918
Workmen Who Won’t Work.
At the monthly meeting of the Swinton Urban Council, Mr. John Siddall, chairman of...
Battle Honours – Local Decorations in Great War – A Remarkable List of...
Mexborough and Swinton Times December 28, 1918
Battle Honours.
Local Decorations During The Great War.
A Remarkable List
We give below a list of the men of this...
Editorial – A Well Kept Watch
South Yorkshire Times, December 2nd 1944
A Well Kept Watch
On Sunday the Home Guard formally “stands down.” In the critical days which followed the Dunkirk...
Victory Year – The Stirring Events of 1918 – Final Year of the...
Mexborough and Swinton Times December 28, 1918
Victory Year.
The Stirring Events of 1918.
South Yorkshire's Part in the Final Effort.
We have passed through the year of...
Victory Year – The Stirring Events of 1918 – South Yorkshire’s Part
Mexborough and Swinton Times December 28, 1918
While the battle raged on the Western Front, the people in the South Yorkshire district were doing their...
Breach of Sugar Order
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Tuesday 24 December 1918
Albert Hammerton (50), confectioner, Swinton, was yesterday, at the Rotherham West Riding Court, fined 20s. for a...
Gamblers Plunge Into The River.
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Wednesday 04 December 1918
Gamblers Plunge Into The River.
Seventeen men from Mexbro’ and district were charged at Doncaster, yesterdav, with...
Swinton Canal Suicides
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Tuesday 03 December 1918
At an inquest was held on Gertrude Jowett (22), 6, Prince Street, Swinton, munition worker, whose body...