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Originally Posted by Eric

So, I'm to take it that the figure of 585 from Martin Middlebrook's "First Day on the Somme" is not accurate. If this is the case, then all of the figures in his appendix on the number of casualites by battallion must be suspect, even though one reviewer called them "definitive." Just wondering if anyone else has done the same painstaking reseach you have done on the Pals for any of the other locally-raised units?

Yes, quite a lot of list in those WW1 books have been found to be incorrect.
Only about 75% are recorded in Soldiers Died in the Great War, there are also several missing from the Commonwealth War Graves Registers. Bill Turner had seven names added to the Thiepval Memorial, I have found another, William Lowther who was killed at the battle of the Somme on July 1st, who should be on the Theipval Memorial.
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