page_title: Preston Pals
section_title: Notable recruits
hierarchical_section_title: Preston Pals / Notable recruits
caption_attribution_description: English: The Preston Pals monument
context_page_description: The Preston Pals — officially 'D' Company, 7th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment — were a group of men from the town of Preston in Lancashire, England, who volunteered to fight in France during World War I, and took part in the Battle of the Somme.
context_section_description: The first officer of the Preston Pals to be killed in action, in February 1916, was Lieutenant Maurice Bannister, son of the vicar of St George’s Church. Another recruit was Private Hugh Carnegie Rain, the son of Will Onda (Hugh Rain), a former stage acrobat and performer who was a film maker, distributor and cinema proprietor in Preston. Corporal Frank Wood, of Connaught Road, Broadgate, was the first member of Orchard Methodist Church to become a casualty in the war. He had formerly worked for Merigold Brothers in the Old Vicarage. 
  Lieutenant Harold Fazackerly, of Ashton, won the Military Cross and Bar before being killed in action in August 1916. Lieutenant Horace J. Lancaster, of Penwortham, also won the Military Cross.
  One of the last surviving members of the Preston Pals who served in France was James Collier Nickeas. He died in 1986, in a Barrow hospital, aged 93. His father once ran the Alexandra ballroom and cinema in Walker Street, Preston.
caption: Memorial tablet to the Preston Pals at Preston railway station
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