Tribute to Accrington Pals to be officially unveiled

A tribute to the men of the Accrington Pals battalion, who lost their lives in the First World War, will be unveiled at a ceremony.

Councillor Miles Parkinson, Council Leader, said:

“The Accrington Pals are interweaved into the very fabric of our local history, famously forming as they did a Pals battalion to fight in the First World War, with many men from this area answering Kitchener’s call.

But on 1st July 1916, on that fateful first day of the Battle of the Somme, they suffered severe losses and over 600 casualties, leaving the community back home shattered and hardly anyone untouched, with so many losing husbands, sons, brothers, uncles, friends.