Wigan Album

Exellent photo Mick,any of the enlisted men?

Unfortunately not - a 'one off' I'm afraid!

Thanks anyroad Mick,good photo.

I believe the two Lieut James's who are named in the photo are brothers and S James later became a captain. They were both killed in action. Tragically they had two more brothers who were killed, that was 4 brothers from the same family. Their father was the Reverand James of Haigh St.Davids church Aspull.

Its funny when you start to look at various assorted photos and you read a list of the officers in the photo and suddenly you see a surname, that is your own. Someone that you dont know, but you then want to know much more.

I believe the officer 9th from rt, back row, to be Lt Brown, my grandfather Alfred Frank Brown, born West Bromwich, Staffs. By 1911 he had moved to Wigan and was boarding with a Mrs Mary Jane Taylor of 72 Ince Green Lane. Two Goodyear aunts also lived in Wigan (husbands Charles Abram and Thomas Harford). Frank worked for the Wigan Coal & Iron Company then Lambert & Holt of Liverpool. He joined the Territorials on or before 1910. He served in the Lancs Hussars Yeomanry and in the Royal Flying Corps in France during WW1. He married Mary Elizabeth Hall in Wigan in 1918 and they had 4 children. He worked for 30 years as Wigan Electricity Works stores superintendent and built the first wireless set in Wigan for J Henry Tyrer, Town Clerk, and died in 1955.

Capt J M B Sanders was commissioned to the Leinster Regiment and seconded to the 5th. He won the Military Cross for his service with the battalion in Gallipoli. He was wounded in August 1915 and went on to command a battalion of the KOSB in Palestine. He had WW2 service. If anybody wants more detailed info about him please e mail me or alternatively if you have info for me etc etc!

is there a james fagan