South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 17 July 1943

Prisoner of Japs

Mrs. Goulder, of 201, Queen Street, Swinton, received a post card from her husband, Dvr. William Goulder, on Wednesday. He says that he is a prisoner in the hands of the Japanese and that he is being treated well.

It was the first news of him since he was reported missing after the fall of Malaya in February, 1942.

A reservist, a Dvr. Goulder, who is 42, came through Dunkirk and has been in the Far East with the R.A.S.C. since October, 1941, He was called up on September 2nd, 1939, and was formerly a miner at Wath Main.

Dvr. Goulder joined the Army when he was 18 and was out in India several years before he returned to work at Wath Main.