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Soldiers – Bomb Throwers from Mexborough & Swinton

April 1916

Mexborough and Swinton Times, April 1916

A group of bomb throwers serving with the 2nd/4th York and Lancasters.

They all, with the exception of the officer, hail from Mexborough and Swinton. Their names reading from left to right are:

Top Row: Privates Smales, Hancock, Ashton, Smith, Reader and Wright

Bottom Row: Private Scott, Sergeant Swann, Lt Lonsdale, Sergeant B.C. Porter and Private G. Frost