English: World War One comprehensions With 2014 just around the corner and 100 years since the onset of World War One, we will be providing as much information and resources as we can on the war. Starting this week we have begun a series of comprehension worksheets on how and why the war started, Lord Kitchener and the Pals Battalions. Perhaps the most interesting of these is the Pals Battalions worksheet. This describes how groups of pals enrolled to fight at the beginning of the war. They were groups of friends, workmates, or even school or university mates who signed up together so that they could fight shoulder to shoulder with their friends. The reality was rather different as many battalions were destroyed and villages and towns lost vast numbers of their young men. Go to World War One worksheets