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Recruitment in Oswestry
Within days of the recruitment event in Liverpool the example was followed with equal excitement
all over the country. Oswestry was no exception. Being a small market town, the raising of a
battalion was seen as too much, so Col A Doyle suggested raising a company or contingent of
Oswestrians instead. The target was 150 men in the first contingency and 250 in a second. In the
first week of September an advertisement appeared in the Border Counties Advertiser with the
headline ‘OSWESTRY “PAL” RECRUITS WANTED. A public meeting was to be held on The Cross in
Oswestry on 3 September at 8pm. The advert continued - ‘The meeting is to encourage all young
men such as Bank Clerks, Shop Assistants etc to form an Oswestry Pal Company’. The meeting would be
addressed by Major General Montgomery.
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| The Oswestry Pals