Andrew Jackson 🇺🇦

Author of Accrington's Pals: The Full Story (2013) and One Day at Passchendaele (2026). Creator and owner of the Accrington Pals website at

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Now published! For an introduction, see my article on the @penswordbooks blog at https://t.co/6GfpmcXzZo

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#NewBook 📖 - One Day at Passchendaele, 9 October 1917

Focusing on the dramatic events below the Passchendaele ridge on 9 October 1917, the author has drawn on British, Australian and German sources to reconstruct the battle in unprecedented detail ✍🏻

🛒 https://t.co/aDG3kBmDNz

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@SmithiesSusan I’ll send you a DM over the weekend

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Memories of a first visit to Ypres fifty-four years ago when dad and I stayed at the De Maan, then the HQ of the Ypres chess club.

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@DarrylPorrino @penswordbooks Thanks Darryl !

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Now published! For an introduction, see my article on the @penswordbooks blog at https://t.co/6GfpmcXzZo

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A visit to @nationaltrust Quarry Bank Mill (very highly recommended) and a reminder of the time when Accrington engineering was globally renowned.

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@TheIanHalstead @ChorleyPals @BBCNews @BBCLancashire @GrahamLiver @Will__Morgan Also not true - see the charts I posted earlier

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@ChorleyPals @BBCNews @BBCLancashire @GrahamLiver The make-up of the original four companies and the reserve company

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Just completed the #HangingStones walk from #RosedaleAbbey with its ten art installations by Andy Goldsworthy. One of the ten was a room with walls fashioned from barbed wire. Very appropriate on this day!

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Remembering the Accrington Pals on the 110th anniversary of their fateful attack at Serre on the opening day of the Battle of the Somme: https://t.co/jzffyhtVIi

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#OTD 110 years ago the Accrington Pals left their camp in Warnimont Wood to march to the front line trenches: https://t.co/h4aKD57Uxj #serre #somme #ww1

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There will be a short Act of Remembrance at the #WW1 Chorley Pals Memorial in #Chorley #Lancashire this coming Wednesday (1st July), commencing at 7.25 a.m.; all welcome. @AccringtonPals @ChorleyWW1 @LindsayHoyle_MP @ChorleyCouncil @BBCLancashire @leponline @guardianchorley

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@SommePhantom @Ianlyall9 No! North of the Albert-Bapaume road, maybe the same as in 2016? (map attached) Lochnagar and other sites south of the road seem to be freely accessible.

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My updated guide to visiting the 1st July 1916 battlefield at Serre: https://t.co/Y23mTTDJtO

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@Ianlyall9 Wishing you a safe and enjoyable trip Ian. Hope to hear how it goes. Be aware of the road closures on the 1st.

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The graves in Tyne Cot Cemetery, Plot XLIX, Row H

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Three soldiers killed during the First World War laid to rest. Two are likely to have served with 330th (2/1st East Lancashire) Brigade, RFA. https://t.co/MrXnjDIUNh

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A beautiful morning in Ypres

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@SommePhantom @Ianlyall9 When last I looked the lane from the Serheb road was closed to vehicles and there was no parking near to the entrance. Has this changed?

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New car/coach park adjoining #Serre Road No.1 Cemetery and new path around back of cemetery to join gravelled track to Sheffield Memorial Park #WW1 #Somme

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@Ianlyall9 Likewise!

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Returning to this hallowed ground #Serre #Somme #WW1