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Montagu Hospital – This Week’s Casualty List – July 05th 1941

July 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 05 July 1941 Montagu Hospital This Week's Casualty List Treated but not detained: Thursday Burton Dancy, 10, Roman Street, Thurnscoe,...

Airman – Dixon, Colin – Those Oranges

July 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 05 July 1941 Those Oranges Colin Dixon (20), son of Mr and Mrs George Dixon, of Park Hill, Darfield, who...

Soldiers – Prescott, John & James – Out East

July 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 05 July 1941 Out East Pte. John Prescott and Pte. James Prescott, sons of Mrs. Paling the late Mr. Prescott....

Editorial – Melee – Titanic Struggle

5 July 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 05 July 1941 Melee - Titanic Struggle The titanic struggle between the Germans and the Russians is now nearly a...

Editorial – Catching a Tartar

12 July 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 12 July 1941 Catching a Tartar Although the situation the Russian front is still obscure, the wistfulness of the German...

Editorial – Blunted Blitzkrieg

19 July 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 19 July 1941 Blunted Blitzkrieg With the fourth week of Hitler’s cynical onslaught on Russia nearly spent the campaign takes...

Editorial – Twilight Phase

26 July 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 26 July 1941 Twilight Phase We appear to have entered a twilight phase of the war. The enemy is quiescent...

Marconigrams – August 16th, 1941

August 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 16 August 1941 Marconigrams Mr. Samuel Elkins, a Jump veteran, has gone back to work at the age of 80....

Marconigrams – August 9th, 1941

August 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times Saturday 09 August 1941 Marconigrams Midsummer Time comes to an end on Sunday when all clocks should be put back one...

Airman – Bowker, Alfred – Former Chorister

August 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 09 August 1941 Former Chorister A former chorister at Darfield Parish Church. Alfred Bowker (18), son of Mr. Arnold Bowker...