Description
World War One/Military/interest
St. Helens Pals
by
Rosley & Waring
PUBLISHED ; St Helens Township
FIRST EDT 2014
Softbacked Book
At the outbreak of the Great War 1914 the London Stock Exchange stopped trading. Sir Henry Rawlinson suggested the now unemployed office workers could form a battalion exclusive to them. The idea of Pals’ serving together came into being. On 28 August, Lord Derby held a meeting at the Territorial drill hall in
Liverpool and enough men volunteered to form four ‘City’ battalions of the King’s (Liverpool Regiment. Four days later Lord Derly held another meeting, this time in St. Helens, and more than 1,000 men came forward to form the 11th Battalion South Lancashire Regiment. The St. Helens Pals were born. After training at Bangor, Grantham and Larkhill they landed in France on 6 November ~ f 1915 and from that day on found , themselves involved in all of the major hot spots of the war.
CONDITION; V GOOD
INTERIOR CLEAN & TIGHT
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