Mexborough and Swinton Times May 18, 1918

Mexborough Widow’s Four Sons
One a Prisoner

Mrs. Ward, widow, of 17, Garden-street, Mexboro’, has had four sons serving in the, Army.

One of them has been discharged, and another is a prisoner in Germany.

The eldest, Pte. Frank Storey, (below, right) is in a Labour company in England.

His younger brother, Cpl. Herbert Daniel Ward (K.O.Y.L.I.) (below, left) was also a Regular, and he is now discharged from the Army severely crippled by wounds about the head and shoulder received in May, 1915, in the same battle in which his brother was captured.

Pte. Sam Ward (K.O.Y.L.I.),( below, left) aged 30, was a Regular soldier; and came from China to France in the early stages of the war. He was captured in May, 1915, and his mother has heard, nothing from him since Christmas, When he last wrote he told her that he would write as often as possible, but that his communication with home had been restricted “as a punishment.”

The youngest son, Pte. Joe Ward (K.O.Y.L.I.) (below, right) aged 20, has been three years in France without a home leave. He has been wounded and shell shocked , and is at present on military police duty at a casualty clearing station.