Soldier – Langdale, Ronald – Wounded – U-Boat Shrapnel

January 1940

Mexborough and Swinton Times February 1940

Denaby Man Wounded

Mr. and Mrs. J. Langdale, of 8, Firbeck Street, Denaby Main, have two sons serving in the forces. They are L/Bombardier Ronald Langdale, who is somewhere in the south of England.

They have received the news that he is suffering from a flesh wound caused by a piece of shrapnel from a U-boat while engaged on coastal defence work.

He has been 7 months in the Army.

His brother Gunner J. T. Langdale is serving at Gibraltar at present. He has been in the Army a year and nine months and while in England served as an ambulance driver.

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