were known as the Chorley Pals. The men from Burnley, who formed Z Company, were known as the Burnley Pals. The Accrington Pals joined the 94th Brigade...
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with the 'Accrington Pals', the nickname given to the smallest home town battalion of volunteers formed to fight in the First World War. The Pals battalions...
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The Accrington Pals were accompanied by pals battalions drawn from Sheffield, Leeds, Barnsley, and Bradford. Of an estimated 700 Accrington Pals who took...
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The Accrington Pals is a 1981 play by Peter Whelan. It is based on the Accrington Pals unit in the First World War and contrasts its life at the front...
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Theatre, London. She also appeared at Chichester Festival Theatre in The Accrington Pals with actress Katherine Kelly. In 2011, Robbins performed for Queen...
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Battalion (Accrington) (commonly known as the Accrington Pals) for active duty in France on 18 April 1916. The unit, one of the so-called pals battalions...
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Manchester in 2013. He played Tom in the First World War play The Accrington Pals by Peter Whelan. In 2014, Morrissey played Valentine in Twelfth Night...
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of Pals battalions from Northern England – Accrington Pals, Barnsley Pals (two battalions), Bradford Pals (two battalions), Durham Pals, Leeds Pals and...
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the BBC crime drama series Blackout. In 2013 she played Sarah in The Accrington Pals at the Royal Exchange and appeared in the feature film Orthodox also...
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on a Hot Tin Roof Other Typhad Mary Macbeth Outskirts TV Times The Accrington Pals The Irish Play Lost World The Weeping of Angels List of people on the...
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played by Roy Marsden. He has also made several appearances in The Accrington Pals, a play by Peter Whelan, portraying the character Ralph, a young volunteer...
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municipal borough with the town hall as its headquarters in 1878. The Accrington Pals Battalion of the East Lancashire Regiment was formally raised by the...
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Welbeck Abbey. Sir Frank Whittle in Westminster Abbey Accrington Pals for St John’s Church Accrington Bishop John Robinson in Arncliffe, North Yorkshire...
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Year Title Role Venue 2002 The Accrington Pals Reggie Minerva Theatre, Chichester The Marriage of Figaro Cherubino Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester...
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Feed, Bill Kenwright Ltd, Kenneth Alan Taylor Sarah Harding, The Accrington Pals, Bolton Octagon, Sue Sutton Mayo Raissa, The Suicide, Bolton Octagon...
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Sarah Frankcom at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. (2004) May in The Accrington Pals by Peter Whelan. Directed by James Dacre at the Royal Exchange, Manchester...
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of which tells of his father's death. The album also includes "The Accrington Pals" and cover versions of Bruce Springsteen's "Factory" and Eric Bogle's...
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the last surviving member of the Blackbury pals, a Pals battalion with obvious parallel to the Accrington Pals. This man is called Tommy Atkins, the name...
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London: Samson Books Limited. ISBN 0-906304-03-2. Andrew Jackson, Accrington's Pals: The Full Story, Barnsley, Pen & Sword, 2013, ISBN 9781-84884-469-8...
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Productions include Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, The Cherry Orchard, The Accrington Pals by Peter Whelan, The Card adapted by Joyce Holliday, Outskirts by Hanif...
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After recovering from his wound he joined the 11th Battalion, (the Accrington Pals), in the Autumn of 1917. On 21 March 1918, between Moyenneville and...
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Regiment Freedom of the Borough (Accrington Pals)". War Memorials Online. Retrieved 18 July 2021. Official website Accrington Web Hyndburn's local community...
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battalion that as a whole became known by the far more famous name of the Accrington Pals. Victoria Crosses were awarded to two soldiers from the town, Hugh...
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British 'Tommies' and shots of poppies, during which the names of the Accrington Pals were shown on the stadium screens. Unprompted, members of the audience...
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expending 74,000 bullets against the attack. Small groups of the Accrington Pals and the Sheffield City Battalion managed to cross no man's land and...
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City, Yeovil Town). Peter Whelan, 82, playwright (The Herbal Bed, The Accrington Pals). 4 July Alan Alan, 87, escapologist and magician. Paul Apted, 47,...
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Theatre, Southampton; Deadwood at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury; The Accrington Pals and Mowgli's Jungle at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton; Drummers for Out...
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unknown (link) "Queen's Lancashire Regiment Freedom of the Borough (Accrington Pals)". War Memorials Online. Retrieved 18 July 2021. Spencer, Andrew (14...
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Theatre Awards), Liam Gerrard, Joe Armstrong and Carla Henry (2012) The Accrington Pals by Peter Whelan. Directed by James Dacre with Emma Lowndes, Sarah Ridgeway...
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Edge (1975) co-written with Leslie Darbon Captain Swing (1979) The Accrington Pals (1981) Clay (1982) A Cold Wind Blowing Up (1983) co-written with Leslie...
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