Sorry about that, this suddenly got posted mid typing

AndyG

You wrote: ..... The Pals Battalions were raised later in the war when it was realised the men wouldn't be Home before the Leaves Fall. They were usually raised as additional battalions of extant regular formations but numbered after the recruiting figures were in....

Ray Westlake in "Kitchener's Army" writes.... " On 11 August <1914> Kitchener's now famous proclamation headed "YOUR KING AND COUNTRY NEED YOU. A CALL TO ARMS" was published and called for some 100 000 men aged between 19 and 30 to enlist, Within two weeks the required number had come forward and on 21 August Army Order 324 approved the addition to the Army of six divisions and Army Troops.
Included in this Army Order were details of the comosition and nomenclature of the new units and formations....The new battalions were to be raised as additional battalions of the regiments of Infantry of the Line, receiving numbers following on consecutively from the existing battalions of their regiments...."

Goos luck

Walrus