South Yorkshire Times, May 27th, 1944
Marconigrams
Mexborough Comforts Fund hope to make £100 by their annual flag day this week-end.
Mr. H. L. V. Evans of St. Alban’s and formerly of Doncaster, late Inspector of Mines for Yorkshire, left £5,709 (net personalty £5,649).
Gifts of rhubarb which supporters of the Montagu Hospital may be able to spare, would be most useful and very welcome. The Board of Management would be grateful to receive these gifts.
Sgt. Roy Barker Silverwood, R.A.F., of Sheffield, who has been awarded the D.F.M. was born at Mexborough. He is 22 and has made more than 40 operational flights as a flight engineer.
Major P. MacKenzie Smith, of Hooton Pagnell, has been serving in the Anglo beachhead in Italy.
On Whit-Tuesday afternoon, a garden fete will be held in the Vicarage Field, Swinton, in support of Red Cross funds.
Rescue teams after fighting a fire in the Parkgate seam at Cadeby Colliery for nearly four days successfully sealed off the affected area on Wednesday.
Britain’s railway workers have contributed £307,000 in pennies to the Red Cross Penny-a-Week Fund. Totals for the four groups are: L.M.S. £117,400, L.N.E.R. £112,830, G.W.R. £41,175, S.R. £35,380.