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  2. Liverpool Pals - Wikipedia

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    They left for France in late 1915, and took part in some of the fiercest battles of the war, with heavy loss of life. Almost 200 of the Liverpool Pals were killed in one day, 1 July 1916, in the Battle of the Somme. At the end of the war, about 20% of the volunteers had been killed, and a further 50% injured. [1] The Liverpool Pals consisted of ...

  3. List of battalions of the King's Regiment (Liverpool) - Wikipedia

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    The 17th to 20th King's, New Army "Service" battalions, were referred to as the Liverpool "Pals" because they were predominantly composed of colleagues. The Volunteer Training Corps were raised with overage or reserved occupation men early in the war, and were initially self-organised into many small corps, with a wide variety of names.

  4. Pals battalion - Wikipedia

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    "Pals" departing from Preston railway station, August 1914. The pals battalions of World War I were specially constituted battalions of the British Army comprising men who enlisted together in local recruiting drives, with the promise that they would be able to serve alongside their friends, neighbours and colleagues, rather than being arbitrarily allocated to battalions.

  5. King's Regiment (Liverpool) - Wikipedia

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    The Liverpool Pals' first battle came during "The Big Push" on 1 July 1916, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the worst single day for casualties in British military history. The 89th Brigade, under the Earl of Derby's brother Brigadier F.C. Stanley, [ 72 ] still comprised the 17th, 19th, and 20th Pals, but had the 18th reassigned to ...

  6. List of pals battalions - Wikipedia

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    The pals battalions formed the bulk of the infantry for the divisions of the Fifth New Army (30th, 31st, 32nd, 33rd, 34th, and 35th) and the Sixth New Army (36th (Ulster), 37th, 38th (Welsh), 39th, 40th, and 41st). The exceptions were: the 37th Division was made up of 13 Army Troops battalions from the First (2), Second (2) and Third (9) New ...

  7. List of British Army regiments and corps - Wikipedia

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    Military Provost Staff (MPS) [34] Military Provost Guard Service (MPGS) [35] Royal Corps of Army Music - 14 + 20 bands [36] Royal Army Chaplains' Department - approx. 150 [37] Small Arms School Corps [38] Royal Army Physical Training Corps [39] General Service Corps; Royal Army Medical Service - 9 + 15 units [40] Royal Army Veterinary Corps - 2 ...

  8. 2 women are pen pals for 60 years but have never met - AOL

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    “Assigned as pen pals in middle school to help learn to write in cursive, they remain close friends over 60 years later. But, on September 15th, they finally got to meet,” Schrecengost’s ...

  9. Category:Pals battalions - Wikipedia

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