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Pals Batallion was used both in AQWF and in real life with the British Army. With the British, they let groups of people enlist, that being friends, family and people they know. This makes it more motivating to enlist because you get to fight alongside people you know and I would think it would make it less scary being with friends. This affected a lot on how many people enlisted to join and they got 1,100 people to join in one night. This is like AQWF because Paul Bäumer and his other 3 friends got to enlist together and that is an example of the Pal Batallion.

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I find it interesting that so many of the British soldiers were willing to go to war just because they could go with people they knew. I suppose it makes sense, because today still, we often make decisions based on what our acquaintances tell us. If your sibling goes to a certain school, than you are more likely to follow in their footsteps. If your friends are going to the movies, then you will probably want to come with them, even if you don't want to see it, you just want to be with people you know. Companionship is one of the strongest factors that we make decisions on, with war, education, activities, anything. So if you have even one man from a small town willing to go fight, then others will follow in his footsteps.

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I think it’s pretty cool that the total size of the British army was around 733,000 men, but that wasn’t all. They later gained permission to recruit 500,000 more troops. It was such a surplus amount of soldiers that the British lacked equipment for all 1.2 million soldiers.

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I found it actually kind of strange how they had 733,000 men but didn't feel as if they had enough men to go to war, then to be allowed to recruit up to 500,000 more is mind blowing. I definitely thought that 730,000 would be satisfactory. I also find it crazy how numbers drastically increased in city recruitments after they learned that they could serve with the people they knew and how voluntarily people would go and fight for their country so spontaneously. This relates to AQWF because before the group of people enlisted in the war, they all knew each other and were people they saw on a day to day basis.

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i think it is interesting to read about the men who fought during this time and the friendships they had. most of the men had known each other prior to the war and then had to go through the war together which created some very strong bonds and friendships that most people couldn’t understand because they have not been through anything like this.

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In both AQWF and real life, the boys that had lived and gone to school together thought that going to war would be a pleasant experience, maybe even fun. In all reality, the harsh world destroyed their minds and turned them into walking corpses. Their only purpose was to fight, not to save and serve their country like they wanted to do in the beginning.

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I found that soilders in the Pals Battalions knew most of each other and developed close relationships with them before going to were all the fighting was happening. It's like All Quiet since Paul has a close relationship with all of his friends from school he joined the army with

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I find it interesting how one thought or idea caused such a drastic effect. A poster or a word from one person caused big groups of young men to fight in a war. They didn’t know how bad their situation would become until they were sent to fight. At the end, most of these volunteers died and were replaced by soldiers from all over the country. So even for those that lived, fighting with family and friends only brought them pain.

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Is interesting how successful these group of men were. Since they knew each other and trusted each other they were able to work together and be very successful. Also they knew what was expected out of one another. This makes it so people don’t rely on others to get there job done.

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I found it interesting how the idea of joining the army with your friends encouraged so many men to enlist. Like in AQWF, many of these men came from the same home town and had a patriotic drive, but that led to the men who survived and the family’s of everyone in the battalions getting hurt because everyone in these communities were so close.

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I found the fact that so many friends were willing to sign up together very interesting. I don't know why they would want to risk seeing their friends die.

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the battalions were made up of soldiers who volunteered and were happy about fighting in the war

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What is interesting in my opinion was how the Pals Battalions fell. Due to military integration, the battalions lost their "local flavour". This integration also led to men being sent home for being unfit for war, and some even were deserted, died via accident, or died via illness.

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I found it interesting how they all stuck together to form a strong army and how fast the army grew from the different communities coming together

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I think it’s really crazy how big the British army grew. They had around 700,000 men already and gained another 500,000. Also how they let the men join with who they wanted like their friends or family.

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I think it’s interesting that Britain quickly had enough numbers to mobilize for the war through this method. These battalions were just like what Paül and his friends had.

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Pals battalions were able to prepare for war while being at home with their family

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something that i found interesting was how quickly and how eager men were to volunteer in the war just because they could go with people they already knew. it motivated them to fight harder and gave them the spirit to go to war. if war recruiters hadn’t let men volunteer with friends and family, the army might not have doubled in size. in AQWF, friends from high school volunteer and motivate each other to fight for their home at war. if they hadn’t volunteered together, they may have not volunteered at all.

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What I found interesting is that alot of families in the same town could lose all the men in there house within a day.

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I thought it was interesting what people would do for their country alongside their friends and family. They were pushed into the war and probably felt more comfortable and at home with these people that they had been friends with or had known all of their life. It not only made recruiting easier for the army but it made adjusting to the new lifestyle easier for the soldiers as well.

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I found it interesting how the thought of serving with your friends attracted so many young men. A lot of these men thought going off to war and serving with their friends was going to be fun, but in reality it broke them.

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What I like about the pals battalion is that people didn't have to fight in the war alone they could do it with people that they went to school with or they grew up with. Also I think it's interesting how something so simple as pals battalion could increase the recruitment number by so much.

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From august 19 to the end of September Kitchenerhad formed 50 battalions

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I think that it is interesting that most of the Pals Battalions were trained as a battalion in their hometown, with the support of the locals to boost their morale. Along with this method soldiers were integrated more smoothly into the war, with more ease than a group that was trained far away, in a foreign area. An example of a group trained in a foreign area is the group of soldiers in the book AQWF- even thought they were technically a Pals Battalion, there were still trained in a harsh military camp.

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One thing I found interesting in the article was how when a group of friends or relatives registered together they felt excited to be fighting alongside each other in the war. This is probably how the guys in all quiet on the western front felt before they enlisted.

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I think it’s interesting that Britain was able to nearly double the size of their army so quickly and have them work so well together since many people from the same town joined together

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One thing i found interesting was that the british army had a total of 733,000 men and had gained permission to recruit over 500,000 more but lacked a suitable mechanism to recruit that many people. so they had come up with an idea, the director of recruiting, Henry Rawlinson, suggested that the army recruit a battalion of employees from the city of London. This would assure them that they would work alongside with their friends.

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It seems like many people volunteered for the war in both the story and the article I wonder what gets them so drawn to volunteering to fight for their country. I wonder how people persuade other people to join the army and fight a war.

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The people in the Pal Battalion recruited were all from the same town just like Paul and his friends. Which means the people from the same town grew up together and get to share this experience of being in war and have had memories from their childhood together just like Paul and his friends.

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I found the fact that they allowed men to join up alongside friends,neighbors, and relatives very interesting. This is because I couldn’t imagine going into war with my family and friends. This relates back to All quiet on the western front because Paul Bäumer and all of his class mates went into the  war as shoulders together.So they all knew each other before the war.

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I found it interesting that the community atmosphere was lost once they began replacing local recruits with conscripted soldiers.

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in both pals battalions and all quiet in the western front, the soldiers knew each other before war.

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in both pals battalions and all quiet in the western front, the soldiers knew each other before war.

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Sreya Simhadri p2

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The part I found interesting was when volunteers were lost and replaced, the whole group would lose its spirit. In the book, all of the friends feel comfortable with each other, just like in Pals Battalion

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Sal Al-Bataineh Pd-2
I found it interesting how Britain was able to mobilize thousands of soldiers for war by using the Pals Battalions as a way of uniting local men.

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I found it interesting how they recruited people that are close to each other through war adds, and how they could lose an entire neighborhood of men at one time.

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Pals Battalions were unified in a strong way as they would consist of friend groups, or family. The 6 main characters were unified strongly as they were all high school buddies.

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They allowed men to join up alongside friends, neighbours and relatives. Brothers and lifelong friends went to war to fight alongside together. In the novel “All Quiet On The Western Front”, the Group of younger soldiers signed up together after high school to fight In Ww1.

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What I found interesting in the article was how effective the pals battalion idea worked. It was surprising how quickly this idea took off in the urban areas of Britian. This ties into All Quiet on The Western Front, where Paul and his classmates were eager to join the war thinking it would be glorious to fight together under the persuasion of Kantorek.

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Pals Battalions allowed men to "join up alongside friends, neighbors, and relatives". In AQWF; Albert, Müller, Leer and Paul all "joined up from the same class as volunteers for the war".

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The pals battalions were groups of people that knew each other

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Paul’s group is German while the passage discusses British troop enrollment. Typically mayors, members of parliament and leaders organize the volunteers, like how Paul’s group was persuaded by their teacher. When the government wanted a large army Pals Battalion was a way to guarantee a large group of recruits and increased enrollment.

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I found it interesting once people saw the loss and destruction of the war they stopped volunteering

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It is interesting to me that an entire neighborhood would lose all their men at once due to them enlisting in the war together. I can see how something like this would happen in AQWF because Paul Bäumer's group all enlisted together as friends.

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What I found most interesting is how massive amounts of people signed up so fast as soon as they learned that you could do it with a group of people you know. This relates to the story since Behm didn’t really want to go to war but his friends encouraged him to go since they would all be together.

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Entire neighborhoods could lose almost all male family members in one day to the war.

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War life was seen as a greater opportunity because you could serve with your friends. Baumer, Muller, Kropp, Behm, Kemmerich, and Leer enlisted as friends and were part of the same battalion, alike to a Pal's Battalion.

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I found it interesting how in a single night, a Department in Scotland grew 1,100 people due to the recruiting methods targeting closely related young men out of high school and their teenage years. This relates to the story AQWF because, Kantorek recruits the small group of friends to join the battle, and since one man wants to protect his lifelong friend, he will join too, causing a chain effect in these small communities.

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people knew each other in their battalions and felt more comfortable going to war with the people they knew instead of strangers.

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Many neighborhoods and families lost their male members within a single day. The battalions started high-spirited and ended with loss and gloom.

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people suggested that they get people from the same work place to go in battle together so that it’s easier to get along and work together while in battle

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Families lost all their male members. Whole neighbourhoods lost most of their young men in a single day, as volunteer battalions took heavy losses at battles. This is sad and is not the experience of war that the people thought they were in for in the beginning. When they signed up together, they were happy to defend their country and had a sense of community where everyone worked together. When people started dying off they became sad and downhearted and the sense of success in community was gone.

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Many houses and communities lost their male members just like how Kemmerich and Belm died. This could be shown further in the story if more characters suffered the same fate.

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Ann Heard        Period: 2
It was intresting that the transition to military life was easier for the padlet than others because they could prepare for war at home. Not only did they already know each other but also trusted each other in all stages of war and life

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Period 2

I find it interesting that there were advertisements that persuaded people to join the army by following the “Pals Battalion” method. In AQWF, I wonder if the decision making on entering the war wasn’t only influenced by Kantorek, but the war ads themselves.

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The group of men were able to go to war with people they knew just like the characters in All Quiet on the Western Front who went to school together.