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The battalion's commander, Lieutenant-Colonel A. W. Rickman, was among the wounded. A rumour spread around Accrington that only seven men had survived from the battalion, and an angry crowd surrounded the mayor's house and demanded information. The Accrington Pals were effectively wiped out in a matter of minutes on the first day on the Somme.
A notable example was the 11th (Service) Battalion (Accrington), East Lancashire Regiment, better known as the Accrington Pals. The Accrington Pals were ordered to attack Serre, the most northerly part of the main assault, on the opening day of the battle. The Accrington Pals were accompanied by pals battalions drawn from Sheffield, Leeds ...
No pals battalions were raised in the more rural areas of England, the Scottish Highlands, or Ireland. The Northumberland Fusiliers raised the largest number of pals battalions (twelve) of any regiment, [ 13 ] followed by ten raised by the Royal Fusiliers , [ 14 ] nine for the Welch Regiment , [ 15 ] nine for the Middlesex Regiment , [ 16 ] and ...
E. 11th (Service) Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment (Accrington) 12th (Reserve) Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment; 13th (Service) Battalion, East Surrey Regiment (Wandsworth)
The East Lancashire Regiment was, from 1881 to 1958, a line infantry regiment of the British Army.The regiment was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot and 59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot with the militia and rifle volunteer units of eastern Lancashire. [1]
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The Memorial to the "Bradford Pals" at Hébuterne The 16th and 18th (Service) Battalions of the Prince of Wales Own West Yorkshire Regiment 1914–1918 were part of what was known as "The Bradford Pals". Memorial to Bradford Pals. The tiny village of Hébuterne has a plaque on its church wall commemorating the Bradford Pals.
The Accrington Pals is a 1981 play by Peter Whelan. It is based on the Accrington Pals unit in the First World War and contrasts its life at the front and experiences in the 1916 Battle of the Somme with the women left behind in Accrington .