Photos of Wigan
Photos of Wigan
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Wigan Album
Home Guard WW2
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Orrel,Billinge,Winstanley
Photo: Graham Panter
Photo: Graham Panter
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Item #: 25179
Item #: 25179
My Grandfather WM Baines Homeguard and ARP Wigan.Man second on right same as man in photo
Helen Baldwin uploaded item 17344 so this picture around the same time.My grandfather third on the left.
Helen Baldwin uploaded item 17344 so this picture around the same time.My grandfather third on the left.
Comment by: Albert. on 10th May 2014 at 16:15
I recollect an occasion involving the Home Guard. In the early 1940s, I stayed during the week, at an elderly aunt's house, in St Clement's Street, Spring View. The Home guard building was opposite her house. One evening she had been visiting a friend, and I had been with her. On our way home, as we turned into St Clement's Street,an Home Guard soldier thrust a bayoneted rifle towards us and shouted " Who goes there" It was a bright moonlit night, and I still remember the glint of the moon, on the bayonet. He certainly gave us both a fright. All my aunt could shout was " It's only Eady, it's only Eady."
Comment by: Helen Baldwin on 10th May 2014 at 20:36
I think my Dad is second from the left, but not 100% sure.
Comment by: Gary Winstanley on 11th May 2014 at 07:51
That cigarette seen better days
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