[Retlaw]

[quote=garinda;916068]It's hard to imagine today, the utter heartbreak and devastation, that a little town like Accrington suffered on that one fateful day.

A whole generation of lads wiped out, or horrifically injured, who were someone's sons, husbands, dads, sweetheart, workmates, neighbours, and friends.

They shall never be forgotten.

Accrington's WW1 War Memorial, which is reputed to be the biggest outside London, has 858 names on 11 panels & 21 names on an addenda panel on the side, making 879 in total.
My research has found that 11 of those names are double entries, and 10 have spelling mistakes, then we have the 83 men who were born, or lived in Accrington, who are not on that Memorial, some would argue, that some of the names I've found don't qualify, if they were no longer living in Accrington when war was declared.
To me that is nit picking. Those same people are quick to jump on the Accringtonian platform, if some one wins a medal at the Olympics, or even a singing contest.

Retlaw.