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Salford Pals: History of the Salford Brigade - The 15th, 16th, 19th and 20th (Service) Battalions the Lancashire Fusiliers, 1914-19
  
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Salford Pals: History of the Salford Brigade - The 15th, 16th, 19th and 20th (Service) Battalions the Lancashire Fusiliers, 1914-19 [Illustrated] (Hardcover)

by Michael Stedman (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 264 pages
  • Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd; illustrated edition edition (Feb 1993)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0850523567
  • ISBN-13: 978-0850523560
  • Product Dimensions: 31.8 x 25.5 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,552,829 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The "Pals" battalions were a phenomenon of the Great War, never repeated since. Under Lord Derby's scheme, and in response to Kitchener's famous call for a million volunteers, local communities raised (and initially often paid for) entire battalions for service on the Western Front. Their experience was all too frequently tragic, as men who had known each other all their lives, had worked, volunteered, and trained together, and had been shipped to France together, encountered the first full fury of modern battle on the Somme in July 1916. Many of the Pals battalions would not long survive that first brutal baptism, but their spirit and fighting qualities have gone down into history. This is the story of the four Salford battalions, many of whose original members were recruited from one of the most notorious, oppressive and desolate slums to arise from the Industrial Revolution. Salford was late in recruiting, but within a year had raised four Pals battalions and a reserve battalion - an enormous achievement for a town of its size, as Liverpool and Manchester each raised only four such battalions, and Sheffield just one.

The book records the impact of the war on Salford (noting, for example, the widespread anti-war feeling in the early days), follows the difficulties and triumphs in raising the Pals battalions, and describes the subsequent events and actions, both great and small.

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5.0 out of 5 stars There are some inaccuracies, 9 Aug 2001
My Great Grandfather, 25065 Pte William Roughley was a member of the 15th Bn Lanc Fus (1st Salford Bn The Salford Pals), killed at Thiepval 1st July 2001. I searched throughout this book looking for details of my Great Grandfather so that I may pass these details on to the rest of our family who knew nothing about William until I began to do some research. My son and I will be the first members of Williams decendents to visit The Somme in October 2001. We will visit the battlefield where he and his pals perished attacking the fortified German positions at Thiepval from the woods, advancing uphill into a deadly hail of machine gun fire. We will also honour Williams memory by visiting the memorial at Thiepval where William, who has no known grave, is commemorated on Pier and Face 3c and 3d. We will stand with heads bowed at exactly 0730 hrs, the time when they went over the top to a certain death. Legend has it that the Pals went over the top kicking a football beore they were mown down. In respect of this book, it gave as much detail as I could wish to hope for, but, despite seeing Williams name on the roll of memoriam inside the back page (page264), his name can be clearly seen on the top right of the right hand scroll, I could find no trace of William in the Battalions Nominal Rolls, which was a major dissappointment. Despite this, a moving and tragic story told with great sensitivity about a group of Salford Pals who were truly "Lions led by donkeys".
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