When war was declared in 1914, long high-spirited queues formed outside recruiting offices. But thousands of dockers, miners and farm workers were denied the right to fight the war ' to end all wars ' - they were less than 5 ft 3 in tall.
But in the end they were to get their war, thanks mainly to one man's efforts; they would be called' The Bantams '; and they were to prove the equal of other troops; but were to be forgotten. Wynford Vaughan-
Thomas remembers ' The Bantams ' with the help of Peter Cassidy , 17th Royal Scots
The Late
George Cunningham , 18th HLI
Arthur Davies , 17th Welch
Thomas Hannah , 18th HLI
John Lawson 15th Cheshire
George Palmer, 14th Gloucesters
The Late Augustus Pillar, 18th Welch
Arthur Riddle , 19th Durham LI
Edgar Robinson , 13th Green Howards
James Taylor , 15th Sherwood Foresters
Music ALASTAIR MCDONALD Research DOREEN STEWART SIDNEY ALLINSON
Producer KIT FRASER BBC Scotland