Mexborough and Swinton Times October 26, 1918

Corporal Patrick Edward McGrath
Royal Engineers

Corporal McGrath, 73 Albert Rd, Mexborough, who has been in hospital in Salonika with malaria, is now recovered and with the Salonika forces in Bulgaria. In a recent letter home he says:

‘We were too busy golng forward through Serbia into Bulgaria that we had scarcely time to eat, except, as we were travelling. We are all right now, however. We are in a, Bulgarian town and they think the world of us here. We are in a private billet and nice and comfortable, with clean beds to sleep on.”

Cpl.McGrath mentions that he has recently met Cpl. T. Douglas (R.A.M.C.), formerly Sanitary inspector at Mexborough’, and a Whinney Hill man named Charles Butler.

Corporal McGrath is 24, and bas been serving three and a half years. Before enlistment he was a miner at the Barnburgh colliery.