Accrington Pals, 3 & 4 Platoons, 11th Service Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment

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296319

Reference identifier

HAC-H01-K15-1074-1

Title

Accrington Pals, 3 & 4 Platoons, 11th Service Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment

Place

Accrington

Personal names

C. Clayton, S. Smith, W. Greaves, R. Renton, T. Gibson, H. Scholes, T. McKenna, H. Kay, H. Chadwick, J. Taylor, T. Sharples, A. Rigg, M. Swindlehurst, C. Birtwell, H. Mulhall, D. Ashton, H. Greenwood, E. Place, B. Holroyd, F. Beattie, Hacking, W. Chadwick, W. Holmes, Starkie, F. Bywater, E. Riley, F. Bird, C. Glover, G. Pollard, P. McLoughlin, P. Hargreaves, F. Cockle, A. Hargreaves, W. Johnson, T. Carey, W. Singleton, G. Lund, J. Baron, F. Bleasdale, D. Brady, J. Seddon, J. Walsh, R. Bleasdale, J. Gibson, Sergeant Lyon, Sergeant Nuttall, Company Sergeant Major Hey, Artificer Quartermaster Sergeant Hindle, Sergeant Heys, P. Pettie, E. Eddleston, T. Griffiths, A. Baron, W. Briggs, S. Dodd, H. Malone

General notes

This is a group photograph of the 3 & 4 Platoons from the A Company of the 11th Service Battalion of the East Lancashire Regiment, known as the Accrington Pals. This photograph was taken at the St. John Ambulance Drill Hall in Accrington, in February 1915, shortly before the group marched from the Drill Hall to the Accrington's Railway Station to catch a train to Caernafon. From there they were posted to Penkridge, Grantham and Salisbury Plain.

W. Holmes was killed in September 1918, and is buried in Birr Cross Roads Cemetery in Belgium.

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Medium

Photographic print

Colour

Monochrome

Year of image

1915

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Subjects

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