South Yorkshire Times, October 21st 1944
Commission in R.A.F.
Sgt. Navigator Jim Newby (25), their youngest son, has written to Mr. and Mrs. A. Newby, 64, Chaucer Road, Mexboro’, with the news that he has been granted a commission as Pilot Officer.
P/O Newby is in Montreal, having been in Canada about two years. He has been engaged in the plane ferry service.
Before he volunteered for air crew duties three years ago he worked at Beeston, Notts. An old boy of Mexborough Secondary School, P/O Newby was formerly a member of Oxford Road Church.