Accrington Pals 11th (Service) Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment (Accrington)
Cap badge of the East Lancashire Regiment
Active
2 September 1914 – 20 November 1919
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Branch
New Army
Type
Pals battalion
Role
Infantry
Size
Battalion
Part of
31st Division
Garrison/HQ
Accrington
Patron
Mayor and Town of Accrington
Engagements
Battle of the Somme Third Battle of the Scarpe Capture of Oppy Wood German spring offensive Battle of the Lys Hundred Days Offensive
Military unit
The Accrington Pals, officially the 11th (Service) Battalion (Accrington), East Lancashire Regiment, was a pals battalion of Kitchener's Army raised in and around the town of Accrington during the First World War.[1]
were known as the Chorley Pals. The men from Burnley, who formed Z Company, were known as the Burnley Pals. The AccringtonPals joined the 94th Brigade...
The AccringtonPals were accompanied by pals battalions drawn from Sheffield, Leeds, Barnsley, and Bradford. Of an estimated 700 AccringtonPals who took...
with the 'AccringtonPals', the nickname given to the smallest home town battalion of volunteers formed to fight in the First World War. The Pals battalions...
Manchester in 2013. He played Tom in the First World War play The AccringtonPals by Peter Whelan. In 2014, Morrissey played Valentine in Twelfth Night...
Theatre, London. She also appeared at Chichester Festival Theatre in The AccringtonPals with actress Katherine Kelly. In 2011, Robbins performed for Queen...
Battalion (Accrington) (commonly known as the AccringtonPals) for active duty in France on 18 April 1916. The unit, one of the so-called pals battalions...
the BBC crime drama series Blackout. In 2013 she played Sarah in The AccringtonPals at the Royal Exchange and appeared in the feature film Orthodox also...
played by Roy Marsden. He has also made several appearances in The AccringtonPals, a play by Peter Whelan, portraying the character Ralph, a young volunteer...
Sarah Frankcom at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. (2004) May in The AccringtonPals by Peter Whelan. Directed by James Dacre at the Royal Exchange, Manchester...
on a Hot Tin Roof Other Typhad Mary Macbeth Outskirts TV Times The AccringtonPals The Irish Play Lost World The Weeping of Angels List of people on the...
Feed, Bill Kenwright Ltd, Kenneth Alan Taylor Sarah Harding, The AccringtonPals, Bolton Octagon, Sue Sutton Mayo Raissa, The Suicide, Bolton Octagon...
the last surviving member of the Blackbury pals, a Pals battalion with obvious parallel to the AccringtonPals. This man is called Tommy Atkins, the name...
municipal borough with the town hall as its headquarters in 1878. The AccringtonPals Battalion of the East Lancashire Regiment was formally raised by the...
of which tells of his father's death. The album also includes "The AccringtonPals" and cover versions of Bruce Springsteen's "Factory" and Eric Bogle's...
After recovering from his wound he joined the 11th Battalion, (the AccringtonPals), in the Autumn of 1917. On 21 March 1918, between Moyenneville and...
Bank Camp on Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, where it was joined by the AccringtonPals (11th East Lancashire Regiment). in place of the Grimsby Chums. The...
Productions include Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, The Cherry Orchard, The AccringtonPals by Peter Whelan, The Card adapted by Joyce Holliday, Outskirts by Hanif...
Regiment Freedom of the Borough (AccringtonPals)". War Memorials Online. Retrieved 18 July 2021. Official website Accrington Web Hyndburn's local community...
Year Title Role 2007 Humble Boy Rosie 2004 Frankestein Justine 2001 AccringtonPals Sarah Stairs to the Roof Alma The Clandestine Marriage Fanny 2000 Cinderella-...
London: Samson Books Limited. ISBN 0-906304-03-2. Andrew Jackson, Accrington'sPals: The Full Story, Barnsley, Pen & Sword, 2013, ISBN 9781-84884-469-8...
The Barnsley Pals were two 'Pals battalions' formed as part of 'Kitchener's Army' during World War I. Raised by local initiative in the town of Barnsley...
battalion that as a whole became known by the far more famous name of the AccringtonPals. Victoria Crosses were awarded to two soldiers from the town, Hugh...
British 'Tommies' and shots of poppies, during which the names of the AccringtonPals were shown on the stadium screens. Unprompted, members of the audience...
Edge (1975) co-written with Leslie Darbon Captain Swing (1979) The AccringtonPals (1981) Clay (1982) A Cold Wind Blowing Up (1983) co-written with Leslie...