Congressional Record


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Journals of the House of Commons


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The Athenaeum


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Barnsley Pals


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The 'Pals' battalions were a phenomenon of the Great War, never repeated since. Under Lord Derby's scheme, and in response to Kitchener's famous call for a million volunteers, local communities raised (and initially often paid for) entire battalions for service on the Western Front.