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There is a slight problem here. If you are thinking of putting togeather a travelling exhibit of the Pals, then you are mainly concerned with the events leading up to and then occuring on 1st July 1916 in France. However, if you are talking about the wider socio-economic impact of WW1 on the town then you have to take into account the following relative number:-
Despite the carnage sustained on the morning of that fateful day, the dead (& missing) of that battle represent only about 1 in 10 of the total losses sustained by the men who joined up from Accy and the area. ( Andrew Jackson can possibly give a more accurate figure). All the rest - several thousand - were killed while serving with other East Lancs battalions, other infantry regiments - such as the Lancashire Fusiliers - others corps, and other services. They lie dead not only on the Somme, but in the mud of Ypres and Passendale, the beaches of Gallipoli and in the desert of Iraq.