South Yorkshire Times, October 17, 1942.

In Japanese Hands

Mr. and Mrs. H. Clark, 21, Avenue Road, Wath, received official news on Friday that their eldest son, Gnr, Harold Geoffrey Clark, R. A. (25), is a prisoner of war in Japanese hands.

They also received a letter from the Red Cross yesterday (Thursday). Gnr. Clark, who worked at Manvers Main colliery, joined the Army a year before the outbreak of the war and when war was declared had been in Singapore for two weeks. After the fall of Singapore was reported “missing, may be prisoner of war.”