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Mr. Hall Speaks Out

September 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 05 September 1942 Mr. Hall Speaks Out None of the many speeches made by Mr. Joe Hall, the Yorkshire miners' leader,...

Sailor – Wilks, Kenneth – Sailing The Seas

September 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 12 September 1942 Sailing The Seas Kenneth Wilks (21), a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Wilks, Barnsley Road, Darfield, joined...

Editorial – The Fourth Year

5 September 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 05 September 1942 The Fourth Year In those far-off days of the autumn of 1939, when the war was still a...

Editorial – A Cheerful War Review

12 September 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 12 September 1942 A Cheerful War Review With all the old mastery of phrase and a hint of new optimism...

Editorial – The Breathless Moment

19 September 1942
South Yorkshire Times, September 19, 1942 The Breathless Moment Never was time more heartily wished away than the sedate march of Autumn towards Winter. In Russia...

Editorial – The Need for Speed

26 September 1942
South Yorkshire Times, September 26, 1942 The Need for Speed At Stalingrad the struggle for dominance now seems to have become a Street by Street affair....

Airman – Stables, Leslie – Airman Promoted

October 1942
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 31 October 1942 Airman Promoted Sergt. Leslie Stables. R.A.F., son of Mr. and Mrs. D. Stables, of Snape Hill Road,...

Airman – Wright, George – Commissioned in the R.A.F.

October 1942
South Yorkshire Times, October 17, 1942. Commissioned in the R.A.F. Mr. George Wright (25), eldest son of Mr. and Mrs Wright, Barnsley Road, Darfield, and formerly...

Soldier – Coe, Cyril – Darfield Crooner

October 1942
South Yorkshire Times, October 17, 1942. Darfield Crooner Cyril Coe, son of Mrs. W. Coe, and the late Mr. Coe, of Snape Hill, Darfield, is in...

Soldier – Singleton, Thomas – Learning to Cook

October 1942
South Yorkshire Times, October 17, 1942. Learning to Cook Thomas Singleton, of Havelock Street, Darfield, who joined the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, has now been...