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Originally Posted by Eric
I wonder how many living in Accy and area today .... and others, like me, who left for whatever reasons ... are related, however distantly, to one (or maybe more than one) of the men who went over the top on July 1, 1916?
And Retlaw:
Say not the struggle naught availeth,
The labour and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not, nor faileth,
And as things have been, they remain.
With 2016 just around the corner, all the work you have done may well come to be appreciated. The kind of history that the Pals made isn't some tired story that doesn't have any relevance to the twenty-first century; the world, though nowhere near perfect, would be a hell of lot worse place to live if it hadn't been for the high price paid by men who fought for pennies a day in two world wars.
If you can read this post, thank a teacher; and because you are reading it in English, thank a soldier.
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Eric,
That last sentence says it all.
As for how many are related in some way to the local men who served in WW1, then their must be hundreds.
My original database, before I started filling in specific details on each man showed over 14500 entries from all the sources I could think of. Now after a few years of further research on the men themselves, I have 14111 names. I've spent the last six months searching thro the service records and aquired the info on 457 of them, nearly at the end of C's.
Thats for the whole of the present day Hyndburn, the called Greater Accrington.
Todays generation revolves around idiots like that jackson who just died.
No depth to their thought processess.
Retlaw.