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Editorial – Shattering Blows – Battle of Cape Matapan (videos)

5 April 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 05 April 1941 Shattering Blows Italy has been given one more reminder of the terrifying power of the Royal...

Editorial – A Cry From Macedonia -Invasion of Greece & Yugoslavia (video)

12 April 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 12 April 1941 A Cry From Macedonia For Greece and Yugoslavia the hour of destiny has struck and the...

Editorial – The Price of Survival

12 April 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 12 April 1941 The Price of Survival The first full war Budget presents us with a sombre but striking...

Editorial – Britain at Bay

19 April 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 19 April 1941 Britain at Bay A swift shadow has passed over our military position in North Africa, where...

Editorial – Greek Tragedy

26 April 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 26 April 1941 Greek Tragedy The war in Greece is not yet over but it is far spent. The...

Golden Wedding – Mr & Mrs Parry

May 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 24 May 1941 Golden Wedding. Fifty years ago last Saturday, Mr. and Mrs. William Parry, of The Bungalows, Darfleld, were...

“Deathless” Fame – Distinction for Darfield

May 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 24 May 1941 "Deathless" Fame Distinction for Darfield An appeal to the people of Darfleld to play their part...

Montagu Hospital – The Week’s Casualty List May 24, 1941

May 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 24 May 1941 Montagu Hospital The Week's Casualty List Treated but not detained: Thursday EmiIy White. 8, Auckland Road, Mexborough, injury to...

Bolton 130   Darfield  121 – First Win This Season

May 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 24 May 1941 Yorkshire Council That Man Again! - White Takes Seven Elsecar 135  Mexborough 84 A snappy spell by...

Soldier – Bowden, William – Prisoner of War.

May 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 24 May 1941 Prisoner of War. William Bowden, who resided with his sister, Mrs. Noah Harley, at Church Street, Darfield,...