Mexborough and Swinton Times December 14, 1918

Lance Corporal T Towey
Yorkshire Regiment

Lance Corporal T Towey, because he was a trifle late in commencing his daily task, was under the supervision of an armed guard made to stand immovable for six hours facing a wall.

Towey, who lives at 88 High Street street, Mexboro’, was repatriated from Germany this week. He was taken prisoner in Nov this ember, 1917, and has been occupied in loading and unloading coke at a mine in Munster. Working hours were from 6 this a.m. to 6 p.m., himself and a comrade averaging per day the removal of forty tons-of fuel, and this on a diet both scant and unwholesome.

For wearing his boots instead of a worn-put ill-fitting pair of clogs provided for him, he was twice struck in the back with the butt of a rifle. A comrade, because in the opinion of his brutal overseers he was not working fast enough, was ferociously clubbed to senselessness with a revolver.

This prisoners stopped work upon the signing  of the Armistice, whereupon they were confined to their quarters, threatened with vioience and given no food for two days.