[Retlaw]

Similarly, because of YOUR purposeful error, there may be a relative of the man mis-named who will never see what he actually looked like.

How would you feel??[/quote]

In 1983 there were still six of the original Accrington Pals still alive living in the area. Harry kay, George Pollard, Ernie Culley, Russell Bradshaw, Stan Bewsher and James Snailham. They were shown an enlargement of the photograph in question and even they could only name a few on the picture.

When the Pals came marching into Accrington on August 1st 1915, a lot of people did'nt recognised them as the men who left Accrington on February 23.

After all these years and the pubilicity William Turner gave to the Accrington Pals, his lectures, school visits and our displays on the Pals aniversaries. I don't think any one is going to be looking for Joe Bloggs.

When all said and done I did'nt need to name those men on the picture, till I put their names on very few were of them were known.

And in reply to another on this site who took umbrage at my saying people want to swank about their web sites and others being ripped off, well is does HAPPEN, I've been searching on genealogy web sites for some of my soldiers, and the number of people who complain about others ripping off their family trees to add to their own, just to impress others with the biggest family tree.

That is also the reason why very few parish registers are available for viewing, people were caught actually altering entries in parish registers, luckily there are the Bishops transcripts, which the public could never get their hands on.

Retlaw.