Wigan Album
World War One
3 Comments
Photo: Rev David Long
Item #: 25708
It seems from the cemetery records that the men are actually buried here - though they are recorded under four different grave numbers. Four are in one CofE plot (1070b), and one in another (1070C), two are in an adjacent non-conformist plot (217) and the last in the next plot, (218).
However... the headstones do not reflect this - they seem to have been placed at random.
All have dates on them - but one does not give the year.
Yes Reverend Long, these are the graves I mistook yesterday's photos for.There are so many graves of WW1 casualties in Ince Cemetery as Reverend Long will know but one memorial erected by a man in gratitude for the safe return of his sons. In a way just as moving.
I wonder if anyone would be able to help me with the identification of an army badge of WW1 ?
It has nothing to do with Wigan but I am at a loss as to where else to look now & lots of you out there are very knowledgeable about these things. It concerns a young man killed in April 1918, he lived in London & was in the Lancashire Fusiliers but the badge on the cap he is wearing is not of that regiment. I know that battalions were made up of other smaller units & think it may be a badge belonging to one of these, ie The Hackney Rifles or some other small group. Would I be able to post a photo on Album ?
I would be grateful for any help.
One of the graves is Alfred Griffiths,my great grandfather. he died of wounds received in the Battle of the Somme,he left behind a wife and 11 children. Albert was 41.