5' 3'' was the height from what I've read on The Bantams. Love the story at the start of this piece about the Durham miner! (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31023270)luxor wrote:What was the regulation on height? IIRC, my ggf was only 5' 4", but joined the King's Lancashire T.F. and transferred to the King's Royal Rifle Corps in 1916. Anyone excluded must have been pretty short. Maybe half of them were underage; just children really. It's hard to imagine the experience of a 14 year old thrown into the Somme. (It's hard to imagine the experience of a 30 year old.)
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Some really interesting links there and some very moving photographs.
Povall Cheshire/Liverpool, Williams/Owens Caernarvon, Brown Liverpool/Cumberland/Ireland, Pritchard Liverpool, Atherton Liverpool, Banks Liverpool, Kelly IOM, Grimes/Botworth/Smith Wirral, Rice Manchester/Ireland, Lockley Manchester, Bowler Manchester.