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Newsreel and commentary describe the British approach to recruitment through the formation of ‘Pals’ Battalions’ where friends and neighbours joined up together. A dramatic monologue introduces Private Fred Prescott, who describes his initial training along with his mates in the ‘Barnsley Pals’. Fred is nineteen years old. We follow him to the front line, where he is about to go into battle for the first time.