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Birkenhead Bantams #1027978 3rd Jan 2017 3:45pm 3rd Jan 2017 3:45pm
Joined: Aug 2013 Posts: 3,003 Wirral C cools OP Forum Master
cools OP Forum Master C Joined: Aug 2013 Posts: 3,003 Wirral	A little off topic I know but related to WW2. I was looking on line through old photographs of Bebington, Birkenhead and spotted one with a line of soldiers think they called them Birkenhead Bantams and every soldier was under 5ft 3ins.Never heard that fact before anyone else?

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Re: Birkenhead Bantams [Re: w10694] #1027979 3rd Jan 2017 4:17pm 3rd Jan 2017 4:17pm
Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 575 Cheshire Y yoller Smartchild
yoller Smartchild Y Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 575 Cheshire	The story of the Bantams, battalions of smaller men first formed in Birkenhead during the Great War, is quite well-known. Here's a book about them ... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cheshire-B...mp;sr=1-1&keywords=bantam+battalions

Re: Birkenhead Bantams [Re: cools] #1028002 4th Jan 2017 8:18am 4th Jan 2017 8:18am
Joined: May 2012 Posts: 2,312 wallasey C casper Forum Master
casper Forum Master C Joined: May 2012 Posts: 2,312 wallasey	I remember reading somewhere about Jack Haworth aka Albert Tatlock of Coronation Street fame, who was a serving bantam during the great war.

Re: Birkenhead Bantams [Re: cools] #1028168 6th Jan 2017 11:41pm 6th Jan 2017 11:41pm
Joined: Jun 2011 Posts: 17,672 Wirral G granny Wiki Master
granny Wiki Master G Joined: Jun 2011 Posts: 17,672 Wirral	Were they used for special or different duties ? Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle

Re: Birkenhead Bantams [Re: granny] #1028210 7th Jan 2017 7:25pm 7th Jan 2017 7:25pm
Joined: Dec 2013 Posts: 417 Upton, Wirral L locomotive Smartchild
locomotive Smartchild L Joined: Dec 2013 Posts: 417 Upton, Wirral	No, they just did normal duties.