"Barnsley Pals: 13th and 14th Battalions, York & Lancaster Regiment
By Jon Cooksey
The true World War I story of one British town's remarkable response to the message "Your Country Needs You."
The Pals battalions were a phenomenon of the Great War, never repeated since.
Under Lord Derby's scheme, and in response to Lord 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 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 in history.
These were truly the cream of Britain's young men, and every single one of them was a volunteer.
This book tells their story.
If you had relatives who served in the Barnsley Pals this is a great book to have, almost certainly the best book on the ‘Pals available
A 320 PAGE UPDATED EDITION SOFTBACK PUBLISHED IN 2016 BY PEN & SWORD MILITARY
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