Enlighten Accrington – AR Walking Trail

Location 7 - Pals Memorial

The Accrington Pals are best remembered as the battalions raised in the early months of the First World War in response to Kitchener’s call for a volunteer army. Groups of friends from all walks of life in Accrington and its neighbouring towns enlisted together to form a battalion with a distinctively local identity. Although the Pals character of the 11th East Lancashire’s had been destroyed in front of Serre, the battalion was returned to strength and went on to fight through to the end of the war.

The area to the east of St James church has now been turned into a memorial garden for the Accrington Pals.