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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp
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:
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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well well what a surprise eh graham