South Yorkshire Times, July 29th, 1944
Darfield Man’s Hand Injuries
News reached Mrs. Richard Ogden of Snape Hill Road, last week that her husband Mr. Richard Ogden had been wounded in France and was in hospital in Wakefield. She went to visit him last week-end and found he has had his middle finger on the left hand amputated and has two broken fingers.
He is 28, and joined up in 1939, and shortly afterwards was sent to Iceland, where he stayed for two years. While he was in Iceland his wife took her young son Kenneth to a cinema at Wombwell where a picture of her husband’s regiment in Iceland was being shown, and the boy spotted his father in the film. Since returning from Iceland, he had been stationed in England, until the opening of the second front, when he was sent over to France.
Before joining the Forces, he worked at Houghton Main Colliery, was a member of the N.F.S. and of Darfield British Legion. When his wife visited him, he declined to discuss his experiences in France.