South Yorkshire Times, August 12th 1944
Mexborough and Wombwell Connections
Mr. Arthur Gunhouse, one of the new members of the Barnsley Co-operative Educational Committee, lives at 9, Springfield Street, Barnsley. He told a “South Yorkshire Times” reporter “On this committee a great opportunity is present to educate and prepare our young members and employees to take full advantage of what I think will be a great advancement of the Co-operative movement after the war.”
A native of Wombwell Mr. Gunhouse started his working career in the grocery and provision trade 35 years ago at Cudworth and Royston. In the last war he served from 1914 to 1919 with the 13th and 15th (“Barnsley Pals”) York and Lancaster Regiment, being on the Quartermaster’s staff and with the Military Provost Staff Corps and the Officers Prisoner of War Camp at Donington Hall near Derby. He reached the rank of Staff-Sergeant.
He went to Mexborough in 1919 when the Barnsley Society’s new warehouse (now the Yorkshire Federal Bakery) was opened and for 16 years lived at 59, Adwick Road. He has taken a keen interest in trade union affairs, was chairman for some years of the local branch of the N.U.D.A.W. and delegate to the Trade and Labour Council, Mexborough. He has served for four years in the Home Guard most of the time as C.Q.M.S.