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Re: Accrington Pals.
July 1st 1916, now that darkness has descended on the battlefield, over 100 men of W. Coy who were wounded earlier in the day, are now, helping one another to get back to the British lines, leaving many of their comrades dead on the battlefield, it would take some of these men two or more days of crawling from shell hole to shell hole, with no food and very little water, before their wounds could be treated.
The total for Accrington alone was 70 dead, and 132 wounded, some of those wounded would suffer for years after. One man who died from war related wounds in 1940, was found on his autopsy to still have shrapnel in his back.
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