A Bradford Pal : ‘It was Simply Heart Breaking’ – From Mill Town to the Battlefields of France
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1911604945
ISBN-13
9781911604945
Publisher
Unicorn Publishing Group
Imprint
Uniform Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 15th, 2019
Print length
208 Pages
Weight
754 grams
Dimensions
23.90 x 17.40 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Autobiography: historical, political & militaryDiaries, letters & journalsFirst World War
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This is the story of an individual soldier’s service in a Pals battalion based on his 1916 diary and researched and presented by his son.
In 1914 the City of Bradford was the world’s leading manufacturer of fine woollen goods. Onthe outbreak of war, at the urging of the city’s wealthy industrialists, thousands of young menrushed to join the colours and within a matter of months two volunteer Pals Battalions wereformed. Author John Broadhead, the son of a Bradford Pal, tells the story of the battalionsand the part played by his father, George William Broadhead, a Town Hall clerk from Batley.
The author’s research was inspired by his father’s diary of 1916 which he handed to the authorshortly before his death in 1980 saying, ‘Here lad you might be interested in this’. Like manyold soldiers he rarely spoke about the war but the diary and the author’s use of official records,newspaper reports and memoirs reveal the stark horror of what faced the nation’s youth.
Fewof the original Pals survived the war but George Broadhead’s luck held. In 1918 he marrieda French girl, then worked for eighteen years with the Imperial War Graves Commission inFrance before returning to his home town to resume his earlier career. This is a story of anordinary soldier but a quite remarkable person.
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