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Soldiers – Salmons Brothers – One Dead, Two Injured

November 1918

Mexborough and Swinton Times November 23, 1918

Three Wath Brothers

Pte. John Salmons (Tank Corps), (picture, left) 31, Low Common road, Wath, has died. in Wareham Military Hospital, with pneumonia, and has been buried with military honours at Wath. He was 19 and had been serving only a few weeks.

His brother, Pte. Charles Salmons, (picture, right) has been serving four years, and has been four time wounded and once gassed.

Another brother, Pte. James, Salmons (K.O.Y.L.I.), (picture, centre) has been serving three and a half years, and  has been in hospital in Malta with Malaria.