08-05-2005, 23:33
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Re: Panopticon Poll
I've just found an interesting reference to the trenches and the Accrington Pals.
According to the "Accrington Gazette" of Saturday 2nd January 1915 the Pals' activities through the week following Christmas 1914 iwere:
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Following the Christmas break, the battalion resumed duties at the usual hour on Monday morning, and have been busy during the week in entrenching exercises (The Pals practised digging trenches on the Coppice - overlooking the town of Accrington - and Moleside.) and company drill.
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That actually comes from a newspaper which was printed at the time and not from some reported hearsay some 90 years or so later. It may well be that the trenches were also used during WWII but there is a clear and distinct reference to them back there in January 1915 and a direct connection to the Accrington Pals.
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