TWENTY-EIGHT
If you've made thy bed, Edgar, you'll just have to lie on it.
Most of the Ashbrook men set off back together—Edgar, Jeb, Jim Comby, Dennis Jennings, Jackson Wragg, Davy Pollack, Percy Edwardes and George Hindle—all in great high spirits.
All the village men had been accepted except Barney Kenyon and another man called Fred Ferrier, who had both been rejected as being below the minimum height of 5'3’.
‘Bugger that,’ said Barney. ‘Just because I'm small don't mean to say that I can't bloody well fight.’
And together with Fred Ferrier and another short man from Etherington, who had also been rejected because of his height, or rather lack of it, they later walked clear across the country to Birkenhead and joined the famous Bantam Battalion of the Cheshire, all to die in Franc
