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Soldier – Jevons, Edward – Reported Missing

December 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 27 December 1941 Reported Missing News was received by his relatives on Saturday that Signalman Edward Jevons (26), youngest son of Mr....

Sailor – Bisby, Bernard – Sank in Minefield

December 1941
December 19, 1941 Ordinary Seaman BERNARD BISBY Service Number: P/JX 264850 Regiment & Unit/Ship Royal Navy H.M.S. Neptune Date of Death Died 19 December 1941 Age 29 years old Buried or...

Editorial – Expert Thuggery at Pearl Harbour (video)

13 December 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 13 December 1941 Expert Thuggery at Pearl Harbour To parody the familiar advertisement we thought the Hun was black until...

Editorial – Ebb and Flow

20 December 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 20 December 1941 Ebb and Flow The fortunes of war swing and sway. In Russia dread gives way to...

Editorial – Hitler’s Stockingless Christmas

27 December 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 27 December 1941 Hitler's Stockingless Christmas When we have given full value to the Japanese successes in the Far...

90th Birthday    

January 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 24 January 1942 90th Birthday     Numerous congratulatory letters and greeting cards have been received this week by Mrs. Mary Ann O'Neil,...

Wedding – Barber & James

January 1942
South Yorkshire Times, January 3, 1942 Miss Edith Barber, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. Barber, of Adwick-on-Dearne, was married on Friday at Adwick...

Wedding – Bonehill & Lawrence

January 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 10 January 1942. The wedding took place at Mexborough Parish Church of Mr. Fredrick Crowson Lawrence, eldest son of Mr....

Wedding – Brown & Bullock

January 1942
South Yorkshire Times, January 17th 1942 The marriage was solemnised at Swinton Parish Church on Thursday of Miss Dorothy Elizabeth Brown, eldest daughter of Mr....

Wedding – Constance & Ashton

January 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 10 January 1942. At Mexborough Parish Church on Saturday, Miss Lilian Constance only daughter of Column Officer L. Heeson and...