IMPROVEMENTS to the memorial in France dedicated to the men of the Barnsley Pals who died at the Battle of the Somme have been completed ready for this week’s centenary commemorations.
About 300 Barnsley men were killed on the first day of the battle alone, July 1 1916, and about half of those were members of the two Barnsley Pals regiments - the 13th and 14th Battalions of the York and Lancaster Regiment.
The battle lasted until November and went on to claim an estimated 800 Barnsley men’s lives.
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