In the first 20 minutes of an advance during the first day of the Battle of the Somme 75 years ago, 700 Accrington
"Pals" suffered 585 casualties.
Today's Remembrance Sunday service comes from the church of St John the Evangelist, the place from which they left. With Debbie Thrower.
Hymns: 0 God. Our Help in Ages
Past (St Anne); Let Saints on Earth in Concert Sing (Dundee); Blessed Assurance; 0 Valiant Hearts (Supreme Sacrifice); The Lord's My Shepherd (Crimond); I Do Not Know What
Lies Ahead; Lord, for the Years; For All the Saints (Sine Nomine).
Accompanied by the Band of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment. Producer Noel Vincent
Editor Roger Hutchings
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