Who wears the wool

• Elizabeth I owned items of Guernsey knitwear and Mary, Queen of Scots wore Guernsey socks to her execution • Nelson rated the jumpers and recommended them to the Admiralty as a valuable article of naval clothing • In 1857, soldiers in Halifax, Novia Scotia, were issued with Guernseys as part of their winter uniform • Le Tricoteur has supplied jumpers to soldiers in Afghanistan as well as olivegreen ones to the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters