South Yorkshire Times, October 14th 1944
Sixth Year On Service
Spr. W. H. Stephenson, a Mexborough man serving with South East Asia Command has written to us expressing thanks for the “South Yorkshire Times,” which reaches him every week and which “brings back memories which I often think about in these dark nerve-testing nights.”
He also expresses thanks to the members of the local Comforts Fund saying it is pleasant, on receipt of the Fund’s gifts, to think that, though the serving men may be out of sight, they are not out of mind.
Spr. Stephenson joined the Army on May 12th 1939. He has been in France, in Madagascar and “somewhere which I am not allowed to mention.” He has been mentioned in dispatches for blowing up a bridge in front of the British front line and had some exciting times in Madagascar. While there he spent three weeks aboard H.M.S. Birmingham, where he met Jack Haddon, the first former Mexborough boy he had seen since he joined the Army.
They spent some happy hours together and later, in India, Spr. Stephenson met his cousin, his “greatest thrill,” as he puts it. Spr. Stephenson’s home is at 52, Windhill Crescent.