South Yorkshire Times, April 29th, 1944
Wounded Guardsman Home
After being in the fighting in Italy, where he was wounded, Guardsman Roland Corbett, (36), Coldstream Guards, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Corbett of 72, Harlington Road, Mexborough, has returned home.
A wound, caused by a bullet going through the top of his boot and coming out at the boot sole, has healed but Guardsman Corbett is completely blinded in the left eye. He has been abroad 11 months, and after serving in North Africa was in the beach landing at Salerno, went with the troops over the Garigliano River, and was wounded on the Cassino Front. While he was in hospital at Naples, Vesuvius was in eruption. Guardsman Corbett worked for Mr. Ernest Taylor, builder and contractor before joining up four years ago.
He praises the work of the Red Cross and nurses in the front line in Italy, and says one of the most popular newspapers is “The South Yorkshire Times.”
His brother Q.M.S. Ernest Corbett (30), R.A.S.C., has also been in the Army about four years and abroad two years, most of the time at Madagascar. He went abroad with the rank of Sergeant and became Q.M.S. shortly afterwards. He spent considerable time learning the native language in Madagascar.
Q.M.S. Corbett was a clerk at Denaby Colliery before enlisting and was a member of Mexborough Amateur Operatic Society. Another brother, Dvr. Frank Corbett, (23), has been in the Army for three years, mostly in Iraq. He worked at Queen’s Foundry before being called up.
