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Run Over By Motor Char-A-Banc

January 1918
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Monday 07 January 1918 John Henry Skelton (54), miner, of 34, John Street, Darfield, was walking home from Low Valley on...

Cruelty to a Mare – Previous Offences

January 1918
Sheffield Telegraph - Thursday 10 January 1918 A Darfield farmer, Ernest Swift, was at the Barnsley West Riding Police Court, fined 40s. and costs at...

Soldier – Taylor J.D.– discharged

January 1918
Mexborough and Swinton Times January 5, 1918 Private J.P.Taylor Lincolnshire Regiment Darfield – Discharged

Soldier – Dobbins, Abraham – Killed in Action

January 1918
Mexborough and Swinton Times January 5, 1918 Private Abraham Dobbins York and Lancaster Regiment Died 27 August 1917 aged 24

Soldier – Robinson, Arthur – Military Medallist

January 1918
Mexborough and Swinton Times January 5, 1918 Darfield Military Medallist Driver Arthur Robinson West Yorkshire Regiment Driver Arthur Robinson of Darfield, formerly a clerk at Houghton Main, has...

Noah Short’s Four Ducks

February 1918
Leeds Mercury - Saturday 23 February 1918 Joseph Dyson, Wombwell trammer, was fined £5 and costs at Barnsley, yesterday, for stealing four ducks, the property...

Soldier – Dibb H. – Disentry

February 1918
Mexborough and Swinton Times February 2, 1918 Private H Dibb Yorkshire Regiment Darfield – dysentery

Soldier – Dibb, Arthur – Killed by Shrapnel

February 1918
Mexborough and Swinton Times, February 2, 1918 Private Arthur Dibb Pte. Arthur Dibb, second son of Mr. and Mrs. Dibb, of Pontefract road, Castleford, has been...

Soldier – Moss, Frank – Killed by Bullet

February 1918
Mexborough and Swinton Times, February 2, 1918 Private. Frank Moss York and Lancaster Private Moss, son of Mr.and Mrs. Fred Moss, of Middlecliffe, was killed on December...

Soldier – Baxter D. – Darfield Soldier’s Splendid Record.

February 1918
Mexborough and Swinton Times February 9, 1918 Darfield Soldier's Splendid Record. Sergt.-Instructor D. Baxter, M.M., M.S.M., is over on a fortnight's leave, and our Darfield correspondent...