Mexborough and Swinton Times, June 1916

Bandsman Walter Henry Flather
(York and Lancaster)

News has been received by Mr Thomas Flather, Church Street, Mexborough, manager of the Central Mexborough branch of the Barnsley British Cooperative Society Stores, that his eldest son, bandsman Walter Henry Flather, of the York and Lancaster Regiment, has been wounded in the elbow with shrapnel, and is in a base hospital in France.

Bandsman Flather, who is 24 years of age, and listed about a year ago in the Sheffield City Battalion, and was formally a trained certification assistant and the staff of the Goldthorpe Council School.

Mr Flather has three eligible stands, and they are all serving, two of them in France, while the youngest, private Horace Flather (H.L.I.), formerly a reporter on the “Mexborough Times” staff, is about to go on active service.

Bandsman Flather was formally on the staff of the Hoyland Common Council School.