Peter McGuiggan of “C” Battery 78th Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery

Peter McGuiggan, my grandfather,  worked at a colliery in Gateshead.  He was, according to his marriage certificate, a putter, that is a man working underground hauling baskets of coal from the hewers to the wagons that were then pushed and pulled to the mine shaft for  from where the coal was hauled up to the ...