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Andrew Jacksons new history tells the story of the Great War as it was experienced by the men of the 11th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment (Accrington Pals), the 158th (Accrington and Burnley) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (Howitzers) and their families. Using information gathered from years of painstaking research in national and local archives and in private collections, he reconstructs, in vivid detail, the role played by these men on the Western Front. His book, which draws extensively on diaries, memoirs and letters, follows both infantry and artillerymen into the British armys bloodiest battles of the war, giving a graphic close-up view of their experiences. It is a moving record of the wartime service of a select group of local men during a time of unprecedented conflict.

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Table of Contents Acknowledgements I owe my interest in Accringtons role - photo 1
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Acknowledgements

I owe my interest in Accringtons role in the First World War to my father, Maurice, with whom I made the first of many visits to the battlefields of the Western Front and beyond in the early 1970s.

Of those who have given generously of their time, help and knowledge throughout my work, I would like particularly to thank John Garwood, David Ingham, Mike Townend and the late Denis Otter.

For information on the Harwood family, the help given by Mike Harwood, Nin and Pen Harwood, Andr and Justine Gernez, Heather Fereday, Anne and Paul Willett, and Jayne Waring has been invaluable.

I am grateful to staff at the following archives for allowing me access to collections for which they are responsible and, where requested, for their permission to quote from documents: British Library, The National Archives, Royal Geographical Society, Imperial War Museum, Lancashire Infantry Museum, Royal Artillery Museum, Liddle Collection at the University of Leeds, North West Sound Archive, Accrington, Burnley and Chorley public libraries.

I should also like to thank all of the following who have contributed to this book, and apologize sincerely to anyone whom I may have inadvertently overlooked: Nelly and Jacquie Ainslie, Bob Ashton, Anthony Battersby, Peter Bell, David and Derek Bent, Enid and Stuart Briggs, Gillian Brown, Malcolm Bury, Ross Davies, Neil Erskine and Bindy Wollen, Elnora Ferguson, Tracey Gardner and Dorothy Parkinson, David and Barbara Gay, John and Honor Gorst, Gerald and Pam Hargreaves, Kit Harvey, Dennis Hounsell, Hardy Huber, Pat and Roger Kay, Judy Langton and John Sayer, Marjorie Lloyd-Jones, Jane Maclean, Barry McAleenan, Frances Morris, Diccon Nelson-Roberts, Steven Owen, Jane Ramagge and Michael Ritzema, Robert and Tony Robinson, Barbara Rogers, John Slinger, Walter Slinger, Sue Baker Wilson and Steve McGreal, Hannah Sloane, Diana Stockford, Ian Thomas, Terry Whittaker.

Last, but not least, special thanks go to my wife, Alyson, without whose help, encouragement, support, patience and cartographic skills this book could not have been completed.

While every effort has been made to trace and acknowledge the holders of all copyright material, I trust that anyone whose copyright I have unwittingly infringed will accept my sincere apologies.

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Preface

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ix their career could not be followed: quoted in Accrington Observer and Times, 21 October 1919, p. 1.

Chapter 1

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1 applauded heartily: Accrington Observer and Times, 12 November 1912, p. 1.

2 By 1859 the Accrington area offered employment: R S Crossley, Accrington: Chronological Notes and Men of Mark (Accrington Observer and Times, 1924), p. 44.

2 make good: R S Crossley, Accrington Captains of Industry (Wardleworths, 1930), p. 155.

2 despite the looseness of the Union blockade: James M McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford University Press, 2003), p. 384.

3 36,000 in Blackburn were on charitable relief: Edwin Hopwood, A History of the Lancashire Cotton Industry and the Amalgamated Weavers Association (Amalgamated Weavers Association, 1969), pp. 48 9.

3 mill owners had cut wages by 10 per cent in 1869: Mary Blewett, Textile Workers in the American Northeast and South: Shifting Landscapes of Class, Gender, Race, and Protest, National overview USA, Textile conference HSH, 11 13 November 2004 (hereafter Blewett), p. 5.

3 abounded as nowhere else: Blewett, p. 3.

3 34 per cent of the workforce in Fall River: Blewett, p. 5.

3 reaching New York on the SS Egypt on 11 February 1873: New York Passenger Lists at www.ancestry.com.

3 foreman of the winding, warping and slashing department: Accrington Observer and Times, 3 July 1917, p. 1.

4 chronic insubordination: Blewett, p. 6.

4 a strike of nearly 15,000 workers: Blewett, p. 8.

4 offer of work at a Bombay cotton mill: Accrington Observer and Times, 18 December 1923, p. 4.

4 Imports into Britain of Indian cotton had fallen away again: Arthur Silver, Manchester Men & Indian Cotton 1847 72 (Manchester University Press, 1966), Fig. II on p. 316.

4 in the fertile Gangeatic plain: Surendra Nath Singh, Planning & Development of an Industrial Town: A Study of Kanpur (Mittal Publications, 1990), p. 5.

4 stacked higher than the roofs of the houses: Zo Yalland, Boxwallahs: The British in Cawnpore 1857 1901 (Michael Russell, 1994) (hereafter Yalland), p. 144.

4 the foundation stone was laid: Yalland, p. 145.

5 the first engine of the new mill: Yalland, p. 247.

5 started with a floor shed containing 100 looms: Accrington Gazette, 27 February 1915, p. 8.

5 surpassed by only two rivals: Accrington Gazette, 20 October 1900, p. 5.

5 in a building called the Bibighur: Barbara English, The Kanpur Massacres in India in the Revolt of 1857, Past and Present 142 (February 1994), pp. 169 78.

5 founded the Volunteers Club: Yalland, p. 265.

5 transmitted by post!: Accrington Observer and Times, 18 December 1923, p. 4.

5 three more children: Lancashire: biographies, Rolls of Honour (R J James, 1917), p. 185.

5 employed at the Cawnpore Cotton Mills: Thackers Indian Directory (1890), Part 2.

5 a double wedding: British Library India Office Records N/11/7/1007 and N/11/7/ 1009.

5 6 patent porous waterproof cloths: Thackers Indian Directory (1895), p. 695.

6 retirement at the early age of 50: Accrington Observer and Times, 18 December 1923, p. 4.

6 the pleasure of seeing us off: Accrington Gazette, 17 February 1900, p. 6.

6 election to Accrington Town Council: Accrington Observer and Times, 3 November 1900, p. 8.

6 fresh business interests: Accrington Observer and Times, 18 December 1923, p. 4.

6 awarded a set of medals: Jean Harrison, Accrington Stanley: The Story of a Lancashire Football Club (self published, 1972), p. 7.

Chapter 2

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7 twenty-five times in 1913 alone: Hew Strachan, The First World War (Simon & Schuster, 2003), p. 11.

7 new armament programmes of both France and Russia: Niall Ferguson, The Pity of War (Penguin, 1999) (hereafter Ferguson), p. 151.

8 a war in the near future: quoted in David Fromkin, Europes Last Summer (William Heinemann, 2004) (hereafter Fromkin), p. 110.

8 the most famous wrong-turning in history: Ferguson, p. 146.

8 both died shortly afterwards: Accrington Observer and Times, 30 June 1914, p. 5.

8 the support of the pan-Serb society: Ferguson, p. 146.

9 gave their agreement: Miranda Carter, The Three Emperors (Fig Tree, 2009), pp. 420 1.

9 an ultimatum to Serbia: The Austro-Hungarian Ultimatum to Serbia (English translation) at http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Austro-Hungarian_Ultimatum_to_Serbia_(English_translation).

9 10 minutes before the deadline expired: Accrington Observer and Times, 28 July 1914, p. 2.

9 Serbia replied: The Serbian Response to the Austro-Hungarian Ultimatum (English translation) at http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Serbian_Response_to_the_Austro-Hungarian_Ultimatum_(English_translation).

9 a brilliant achievement in a time-limit of only 48 hours!: quoted in Imanuel Geiss, The Outbreak of the First World War and German War Aims, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1914 (July, 1966), pp. 75 91.

9 no longer had control: quoted in Fromkin, p. 219.

9 convinced of the threat to Britain: Ferguson, p. 163.

9 argued for an immediate declaration of neutrality: Ferguson, p. 160.

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