HE great-grandson of a Barnsley Pal has written a song about him inspired by a photograph taken of him with his fellow Pals during training.

Sam Jefferson lives in Sussex but his mum Sue Francis is from Barnsley and grew up in Staincross.

Sam, a 22-year-old professional guitarist and singer-songwriter, was born almost exactly 100 years after his great-grandfather James Marshall who fought at the Battle of the Somme.

“It really got me thinking when I realised he was my age when he went off to fight. What a different life.”

Read more in this weeks Barnsley Chronicle