News

A show at the Saint Louis Art Museum explores technological and artistic advancements of the interwar period.
The 6th Service Battalion, formed by companies at different towns in Shropshire, left the depot for Blacktown on September 10, 1914 and became a unit of the 60th Brigade, which left for Folkestone ...
By WW1 standards, Brusilov’s success was ... British troops were wartime volunteers formed up in Kitchener or “Pals” battalions. They had little military experience and were totally ...
The theme for 2024 is 'Pals Battalion', celebrating a tactic used by the British Army to get men local to one another to enlist together. Pals battalions were formed in local communities across the UK ...
They were knows as the Pals Battalions. Each year ... to play against some Europe’s top teams as well as visiting the WW1 battlefields. Five teams qualify through results on the pitch with ...
We headed off to find it, in fields near the town of Serre, the town that the Sheffield Pals, the 12th battalion of the York ... Thiepval felt like a work of art. The sheer number of names on ...
In 1992 a farmer discovered a WW1 trench, intact ... where my home town of Leeds lost most of its Pals Battalion. But mention Ypres and people know it. For those back home during the war, there ...
Bradford Council’s Museums and Galleries Collections Team worked with Bradford WW1 Group and Bradford ... He enlisted in 1st Bradford Pals’ Battalion and survived the Somme.
To us the freedom’ are spread across another panel, summarising the formation of the Sheffield Pals Battalion and the thousand men ... notice and appreciate the art, sculptures, and the overall ...
Lieutenant William Rigby from Chorley who served in WW1. In one letter ... a Commission in the Chorley Pals Company, part of the famous ‘Accrington Pals’ Battalion. He, like the rest of ...