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Originally Posted by Neil

I am sure it is impossible to get the information 100% correct. Records will have been lost and destroyed and all the name changing can't help either.

Just a thought, do they need permission to put a name on the memorial from a family member? You mentioned before that some families did not want the names of there loved ones on them.

Now that that generation is practically gone, I would like to think that a lot of the present generation would be happy to have their Grandads name on a memorial.

Bill & I soon found out that every body was claiming to have had a relative in the Accrington Pals, even showed one person that her great uncle had served in the York & Lancs Regt, "was that not the Pals" was the reply. If every claim that "he was in the Pals" was true, then the Accrington Pals could have fought the Germans single handed, and won. Of the original 1320 men who left for Caernarvon on Feb 23rd 1915, very few were still serving in the 11th at the end of the war, over 4200 men did serve in the battalion, but after the carnage of July 1st 1916, they could no longer be called the Accrington Pals.

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