Pals Battalions

The Pals battalions were units of the British army that was made up of men that had enlisted together through special local recruiting drives which allowed friends and neighbors to be enlisted to serve together as apposed to with people they didn't know. The pros of this method of enrolment was that the army recieved almost twice as many recruits, the cons were that people serving alongside their friends would have to suffer the deaths of those they held dear.