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Re: Poppies
Interested in Prospect Poppy Project? Get in touch or become a volunteer with Prospects. 1st July 2011 will be 95th Anniversary of Battle of the Somme. Many poppies have already been sown or planted.
At 04.20am on July 1st 1916, the Accrington Pals were in the assembly trenches, ready and waiting for battle to commence. At 07.20am the Royal Engineers detonated the first of several mines laid under the German positions, at 07.30am the whistle blew, the artillery barrage lifted onto the 2nd line of German trenches and the Pals went forward across no mans land, only to be met by heavy machine gun fire from the Germans who had been pre warned by the explosion of the mines at 7-20 am. Within 20 minutes, over 600 of the 740 men, who took part in the attack, was either killed, wounded or missing. Some of the Accrington Pals are reported to have been in the German trenches. By the 5th July all those who were still able to walk or crawl, had made it back to the British front lines, several acts of heroism were rewarded for rescuing wounded comrades.
Prospects Poppy Project is taking the lead for Accrington Pals 100th anniversary in 2016.... so you lads and lassies have time to get involved!
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