Wigan soldiers pictured on manoeuvres in Norfolk in 1982
By Charles Graham
Published 6th Sep 2026, 04:55 GMT
Now here’s something a little different from the Wigan Observer vaults: pictures taken in 1982 of Wigan members of the Territorial Army on exercise in Norfolk.
This was the year of the Falklands War and there was an upsurge in the number of young people wanting to join the army.