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Soldier – Pearson, Jack – Wounded In Italy

December 1944
South Yorkshire Times, December 2nd 1944 Wounded In Italy Guardsman Jack Pearson, (22), son of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Pearson, of 143, Doncaster Road, Wath, who...

Wath Man Wins D.S.O. – Officer’s Gallantry In Burma

December 1944
South Yorkshire Times, December 2nd 1944 Wath Man Wins D.S.O. Officer’s Gallantry In Burma A former Wath man, Capt. Dennis Parkin, of 14, Clee Crescent, Grimsby, has...

Editorial – A Well-Kept Watch

2 December 1944
South Yorkshire Times, 2 December 1944 A Well-Kept Watch On Sunday the Home Guard formally “stands down.” In the critical days which followed the Dunkirk evacuation,...

Editorial – Greece in Travail

16 December 1944
South Yorkshire Times, 16 December 1944 Greece in Travail There is a significant obduracy about ‘the manner in which the Greek ‘“rebels” (as General Scobie's...