1918 Quarter 1
Run Over By Motor Char-A-Banc
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
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
Mexborough and Swinton Times January 5, 1918
Private J.P.Taylor
Lincolnshire Regiment
Darfield – Discharged
Soldier – Dobbins, Abraham – Killed in Action
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
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
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
Mexborough and Swinton Times February 2, 1918
Private H Dibb
Yorkshire Regiment
Darfield – dysentery
Soldier – Dibb, Arthur – Killed by Shrapnel
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
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.
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...