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Hundreds of people turned up. These were men keen to enlist and members of the public who<br />
had come to offer their support. It was a great patriotic success and more recruitment drives<br />
followed. The next day the Town Mayor presided over a meeting in the Victoria rooms in Oswestry<br />
to ‘promote Recruiting in the Army in the present National Crisis’. The following week, another<br />
recruitment event was planned with the target of raising another 100 ‘Pals’ by the weekend.<br />
Advertisements appeared in the newspapers asking for volunteers for the Montgomeryshire<br />
Yeomanry, Royal Welch Fusiliers, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, even the Public Schools and<br />
University battalion as well as other regiments.<br />
The same week a large crowd met at a recruitment drive at the Music Hall in Shrewsbury, where<br />
there was great applause at the news that Oswestry had already recruited 162 Pals.<br />
| The Oswestry Pals 7
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