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Without a Ticket

July 1917
Sheffield Evening Telegraph July 19, 1917 Without a Ticket “For a contemptible piece of deceit,” as described Mr S Osman, with Mr E Holmes adjudicated in...

Famous Kilnhurst Footballer Joins the Colours

July 1917
Star Green ‘un August 18, 1917 Barnsley will not have the help of L Burkinshaw next season. This member of the famous Kilnhurst footballing family are...

Soldier – Beckett C.– Recovered From Wounds

July 1917
Mexborough and Swinton Times July 21, 1917 Private C Beckett K.O.Y.L.I. Kilnhurst –Recovered from wounds

Soldier – Dungworth C.H.– Kilnhurst Decoration

July 1917
Mexborough and Swinton Times July 21, 1917 A Kilnhurst Decoration Sergeant C.H. Dungworth (York and Lancaster), Kilnhurst, has been awarded the Military Medal “For exceptional coolness and gallantry on...

Kilnhurst Miner Dies

August 1917
Sheffield Daily Telegraph August 7, 1917 A Kilnhurst miner, William Aston (61), employed at the Thrybergh Hall colliery, has died at the Mexborough Montagu hospital...

A Miner’s Lost Fingers

August 1917
Sheffield Daily Telegraph August 18, 1917 A Miner’s Lost Fingers Harry Webster, miner of 27 Thomas St, Kilnhurst asked his Honour Judge Benson at the Rotherham...

Soldier – Browlow J.W. – Killed and M.M.

August 1917
Sheffield Independent August 18, 1917 The widow of Rifleman JW Brownlow, K.R.R, Victoria Street, Kilnhurst has receive the military medal posthumously awarded to him for...