South Yorkshire Times December 8, 1951

Mexborough Korea Captive

A Prisoner in Peking

Since her son’s capture in the Imjin River battle in Korea, his mother, Mrs. T. Glarvey, of 144 Hirst Gate, Mexborough, has received only one letter, and that about seven weeks ago. It merely informed her that he was in Peking and needed cigarette papers.

L/Cpl. Glarvey’s wife, Mrs, Edith Glarvey, living at 1, Washington Street, and his mother, are now anxiously awaiting another letter from far-off China.

Mrs. Glarvey told a “South Yorkshire Times” reporter that he son had been missing five months when she recognised him in a picture in a magazine of a number of prisoners bathing in a river. L/Cpl. Glarvey had only seven weeks on reserve to go when recalled to the 1st Battalion Gloucester Regt.,_in August, 1950. Almost immediately he sailed for Korea.

During the 1939-45 War L/Cpl. Glarvey saw service in Africa, Italy and Belgium, returned for a month’s leave and then took Part in the Normandy invasion. After his demobilisation in 1945 he worked for Messrs. Kemp’s, of Swinton.