South Yorkshire Times, July 29th, 1944
Met In Normandy
Two local men, Cpl. Conn Everett, Army Fire Service, youngest son of Mrs. and the late Mr. F. Everett, of 7, Beech Road, Wath, and Sgt. Joseph Lightley M.P.S., Royal Army Medical Corps., younger son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Lightley, 16, Winterwell Road, West Melton, have met in Normandy.
Before being called up from Darfield Grocery branch of the Barnsley British Cooperative Society, where he was a counterman, Cpl. Everett had been a voluntary member of Wath Fire Service for over 12 months. He went into the York and Lancaster Regiment, and was later transferred to full-time service with Wolverhampton N.F.S., with whom he worked in various cities. He was transferred to the Army Fire Service on its formation. Cpl. Everett is a prominent member of St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church and went to the Roman Catholic School at Wath. He is married and has a baby daughter, Kathleen.
Sergeant Blakely was previously manager of the Barnsley British Co-operative Society’s drug department at Hoyland Common. He is an old boy of Wath Grammar School, and gained his M.P.S. at Edinburgh University. His wife (formerly Miss Kathleen Buckley) is on the teaching staff at Cortonwood Infants’ School.