Photos of Wigan
Photos of Wigan
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Wigan Album
Wigan Soldiers
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wigan soldiers
Photo: JOY
Photo: JOY
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Item #: 6284
Item #: 6284
unknown Calderbank or White
Comment by: Joseph on 8th June 2008 at 01:42
Another Manchester Regiment Soldier,without his puttees.
Comment by: JOY on 9th June 2008 at 19:05
Hi Joseph
what is puttees?
Comment by: Joseph on 9th June 2008 at 19:56
Hello Joy,Puttees were long strips of woollen material bound round the lower leg from ankle to knee and were intended to stop water and mud sloshing into boots and breeches. They were worse than useless; they cut off circulation when too tight because they shrank in the wet, and unwound when too loose, hampering movement.
my grandfather THOMAS WHITE served in the manchester regiment he was K.I.A ON the 6/11/1918 he lived in scholes how did find out the name . TOMMY
Comment by: Graham Taylor on 12th May 2012 at 21:03
He is in the 5th Battalion. You can see the flash on his left shoulder.
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