What ever happened to the "Suffolk Pals"?

Answer 1

Can you be more specific old boy!

Forgot to apologise for the Light brigade thigmy,........ old chum.

Oh, yeah! my Grandfather was born an bred there, Corporal Frank Frost (first and second one), nasty bally business that.

Bally ho! Chap.

Answer 2

'Pals' Regiments were created in WWI from localities to encourage young men to join up together. As John Keegan, an historian of the war said:-

''The British army recruits its regiments by county and town, but the trend was exaggerated in the Kitchener armies. They made a promise very early on when they weren't sure how many volunteers they were going to get, that if you joined up in a group, the group would be kept together. And so you got what was to prove this tragic situation – ghastly situation – of whole streets of young men going off together, whole sort of little factories of young men going off together. It was ghastly because they were all going to get killed together."

I can find no specific reference to a Suffolk Pals Regiment on a quick search - why don't you try Suffol County Council Archives Dept - they will be bound to have some information.

Answer 3

All I know is very few of them survived the War - then many of the few survivors died of the flu.
An educated guess is approximately 220 men joined up and fewer than 30 returned from France. I don't have a clue as to how many died of flu.
Try HistoryChannel.com, DiscoveryChannel.com or MilitaryChannel.com. One of them has run a documentary on trench warfare which includes them.
Good Luck!
p.s. I think the focus of the documentary was the pandemic, NOT the War.