The sacrifices of the Bradford Pals will be remembered at the memorial service 108 years later

The sacrifices made by Bradford Pals on the first day of the Battle of the Somme will be remembered at a memorial service 108 years later.

Everyone is welcome to attend the service, which will be held at the Bradford Pals Memorial Stone in the Memorial Gardens behind Bradford Cenotaph at 11am on July 1.

The Last Post will be played and a minute’s silence will be observed, followed by Reveille.

Wreaths will also be laid and prayers said.

The Bradford Pals were part of the West Yorkshire Regiment which saw action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916 during the First World War.

Of the 1,400 Bradford Pals who went over the top at 7:30 that morning, an estimated 917 became casualties. More than 230 died on the battlefield or from wounds in the following days.

Cllr Beverley Mullaney, Lord Mayor of Bradford, said: “The sacrifices of those young people in Bradford who came together to form the Bradford Pals and who gave so much during the First World War, and in particular the Battle of the Somme, it should never be. forgotten.”