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Airman – Brookes, Walter – Gone Overseas

May 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 16 May 1942 Gone Overseas Walter Brookes, of Snape Hill Road, Darfield, is in the R.A.F., and has now gone overseas....

Yorkshire P.O.W.’s

May 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 23 May 1942 This picture includes a group of Yorkshre soldiers at prisoner’s camp in Germany. On the extreme left...

Editorial – Barnburgh Main

2 May 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 02 May 1942 Barnburgh Main The History of coal-mining is unfortunately punctuated with those disasters which seem inevitable where man...

Editorial – Turning Tide

9 May 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 09 May 1942 Turning Tide The Balance Sheet of war does not yet show many positive credits on the side...

Editorial – Voice of Victory (video)

16 May 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 16 May 1942 Voice of Victory It was the voice of victory which we heard on Sunday in Mr. Churchill's...

Editorial – The Pause

23 May 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 23 May 1942 The Pause Opening the debate on the war in the House of Commons this week Mr. Attlee described...

Editorial – Coalfield Unrest

30 May 1942
South Yorkshire Times, May 30, 1942 Coalfield Unrest Unrest expressed in an outbreak of lightning strikes is not confined to the South Yorkshire coalfield. The...

Airman – Markham, Jack – Airman Killed

June 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 06 June 1942 Airman Killed News reached Mr. and Mrs. J. Markham, of East Street, Darfield, on Tuesday by telegram that...

Soldier – Goodwin, Charles – “Times” Beings the News

June 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 06 June 1942 "Times" Beings the News Charles Goodwin, son of Mr. and Gerge William Goodwin, of West Street. Darfield has...

Soldier – Oliver, James – Too Many Flies

June 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 06 June 1942 Too Many Flies Driver James Oliver, of St. Mary's Road, Darfield, went to the Middle East last October....