14th August 1942
Prisoner in Hong Kong

Mrs Kettlegorough, of Newtown, Pontefract, has received official notice that her husband, Sapper Albert Kettleborough of the Royal Engineers, who was reported missing last December, is now a Prisoner of War in Hong Kong. Sapper Kettleborough, who is 27, has been in the Army for about three years, and for the past two years has been abroad.

Wounded In Middle East

Gunner Leslie Burke, of the Anti-Tank Regiment, of Pontefract, has been wounded in the Middle East and is in hospital, official notification to this effect having been received by his wife, who lives with her parents at Willow Park, Pontefract. Gunner Burke joined up in October 1940, and has been out in the Middle East since December of that year. Writing to his wife from hospital, he says he cannot praise the hospital attendants too highly. He says that before being wounded he had the satisfaction of helping to "put three German tanks out of action." A native of Pontefract, he was educated at St. Joseph’s School, and is a fine swimmer.

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