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salford pals 15th, 16th,19th & 20th battalions Lancashire Fusiliers
Enlarged1993, 1st Edition. Good+. Front cover has some creasing at righthand uppercorner and at righthand bottomcorner. Rear cover has creasing at lefthand uppercorner. Signed by author with dedication on title page. Additional images available upon request.
From the banks of the Irwell to the banks of the Rhine their journey across the battefields of France and Belgium took the Salford Pals four years, during which upwards of 20.000 men served within these units. By january 1919 the first two of Salford's civic battalions joined the Army of Occupatons in Germany, their role to ensure the Armistice terms were accepted in Berlin. At the outset of this journey many of salford's Pals had been enlisted from some of Lancashire's most notorious slums. Their workplaces were the mills, docklands, pits and engineering works which abounded in Salford. Trained together in Wales, the north east of England and on Salisbury Plain, the men had great expectations of succes. On 1st July 1916 Kitchener's New Armies launched their Somme offensive. In the very epicentre of that cauldron the first three of of Salford's battalions were thrown against the massive defences of Thiepval. The men were decimated. Salford was shattered, knowing that it's battalions, raised in such fervent hope and anticipation, would never return whole.
From the banks of the Irwell to the banks of the Rhine their journey across the battefields of France and Belgium took the Salford Pals four years, during which upwards of 20.000 men served within these units. By january 1919 the first two of Salford's civic battalions joined the Army of Occupatons in Germany, their role to ensure the Armistice terms were accepted in Berlin. At the outset of this journey many of salford's Pals had been enlisted from some of Lancashire's most notorious slums. Their workplaces were the mills, docklands, pits and engineering works which abounded in Salford. Trained together in Wales, the north east of England and on Salisbury Plain, the men had great expectations of succes. On 1st July 1916 Kitchener's New Armies launched their Somme offensive. In the very epicentre of that cauldron the first three of of Salford's battalions were thrown against the massive defences of Thiepval. The men were decimated. Salford was shattered, knowing that it's battalions, raised in such fervent hope and anticipation, would never return whole.
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