Talk on Wirral Pals of 13th Battalion Cheshire Regiment to be held in Ellesmere Port

Feb 15 2012 by Laurie Stocks-Moore, Ellesmere Port Pioneer

A HISTORY talk will enlighten attendees on a First World War battalion known as the Wirral Pals.

This month’s Ellesmere Port Local and Family History Society talk on Tuesday, February 21, is from Peter Threlfall, on The Wirral Pals (13th Battalion Cheshire Regiment).

He will be speaking to members and guests on the history of the regiment and how to go about researching family members who served in the armed forces during the First World War.

Peter is chairman of the Merseyside Branch of the Western Front Association, a professional genealogist and a long-term serving soldier in the Territorial Army.

Society meetings are held in the Rolt Conference Centre at the National Waterways Museum. They start at 7.30pm and doors open from 7pm, with refreshments available.

Annual subscription, now due, for 2012 is £10 and the cost per visitor is £3. If you attend four consecutive meetings as a visitor you automatically become a member.