Among the hundreds of thousands of men killed on both sides during the battle of The Somme in 1916 were two brothers from The Dings in St Philips, Bristol.
Arthur Jefferies was killed on 16th September. His brother Alfred died on 1st November. Arthur was killed in action. Alfred was shot for desertion – the only man from Bristol to suffer this fate. They were both victims of the Somme. Along with 358 other men, Alfred was pardoned in 2006.
At 12 noon on Tuesday November 1st 2016, the centenary of Alfred’s execution, the Remembering the Real World War 1 group will lay a wreath in The Dings Park, Oxford Street, St Philips (map here) in memory of both brothers and all those others who died on the Somme.
Members of the Jefferies family will be there, together with Geoff Woolfe, author of ‘The Bristol Deserter’ the Bristol Radical History Group pamphlet about Alfred Jefferies. The pamphlet will be available on the day. Details of where else it is available can be found on the Bristol Radical History Group website here
For more information email rememberingrealww1@gmail.com