Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 03 February 1940

In Australia.

Mr. Arthur Geary, a Mexborough man who emigrated to Western Australia about twelve years ago, and was wounded three times in the Great War, has joined the Colours again for home duty, doing guard at vulnerable points in Western Australia.

He writes home to his father, Mr. T. Geary, former Mexborough man and now of 8, Edward Street, Swinton: “I don’t know what things are like in the old home, but here, if it were not for the soldiers you wouldn’t know there was a war on.”

Mr. Geary, junior married a Sheffield girl and they have two boys. Before leaving England he lived in Bank Street, Mexborough, and worked at Manvers Main Colliery.

He enlisted in December, 1914, and was at the Somme and at Arras He was wounded in 1916, ’17 and ’18, and was demobilised in January, 1919—”A 1.”

Another brother, Mr. William Henry Geary, also served in the last war.  He suffered from trench fever and shell shock, and died in July, 1935. He is interred at Rossington.

Mr. Arthur Geary says his new soldier pals are “all old diggers of 45 to 60 who served during the last war. And a jolly lot of chaps they are! They come from all over—Scotland, Ireland, Wales, England — and one or two Canadians.”