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Editorial – Recoil

3 May 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 03 May 1941 Recoil Once again Mr. Churchill has been called upon in an hour of black discouragement to rouse...

Editorial – Less Talk

10 May 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 10 May 1941 Less Talk The House of Commons debate, intended to be an inquest on the ill-fated expedition to...

Editorial – Rudolf Hess

17 May 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 17 May 1941 Rudolf Hess Rudolf Hess is a welcome gift in one sense, for he comes as light...

Editorial – Crete

24 May 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 24 May 1941 Crete The strategic necessities of the struggle in the Near East made it imperative for the...

Editorial – Hard Punches

31 May 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 31 May 1941 Hard Punches The loss of H.M.S. Hood, blown up by a single shell with practically all hands,...

Two Saved – One Drowned

June 1941
Mexborough & Swinton TimesĀ  June 28, 1941 Two Saved - One Drowned At an inquest at Darfield on Monday a 12 year old pupil of Wath...

Darfield Heroin

June 1941
Mexborough & Swinton TimesĀ  June 28, 1941 Eileen Woodcock, of Darfield (right) the Wath Grammar School girl who rescued two children who were in danger...

Editorial – The Tragedy of Syria

June 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 21 June 1941 The Tragedy of Syria Against brave resistance bred of loyalty to a bad cause, we are...

Airman – Carr, John Harrison – Pilot Now

June 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 07 June 1941 Pilot Now. John Harrison Carr, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Carr, Woodhall Lane, Darfield, has been...

Airman – Thompson, Leslie – Schoolboy International

June 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 14 June 1941 Schoolboy International Footballer Leslie Thompson (18), the schoolboy international footballer, and son of Mr. and Mrs. A....