{"id":6241,"date":"2014-10-03T10:20:08","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T10:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/?post_type=events&#038;p=6241"},"modified":"2018-04-23T20:31:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T20:31:02","slug":"deserters-conchies-reds-bristolian-opposition-first-world-war","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/events\/deserters-conchies-reds-bristolian-opposition-first-world-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Deserters, Conchies and Reds"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Bristol Deserter \u2013 Alfred Jefferies \u2013 His War Story<\/h3>\n<p>During World war One nearly 300 British soldiers on the Western Front were shot at dawn for deserting or for \u2018cowardice\u2019. One victim, Alfred Jefferies, a Bristolian, was executed on 1st November 1916. Based on official archives, including war diaries and court martial records, Geoff Woolfe describes Alfred\u2019s tragic war story, whilst questioning the extent to which the full facts of some war events can be known.<\/p>\n<h3>Freedom of Soul<\/h3>\n<p>Two weeks before the outbreak of the First World War, Bristol dockers and railway workers voted for Britain maintaining neutrality and, although their union\u2019s leadership wavered, the local Independent Labour Party kept up its opposition to the war to the bitter end. Using extracts from television programmes he has directed, Colin Thomas will tell the courageous story of war resisters in Bristol.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6262\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6262\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6262 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image1-300x192.png\" alt=\"British and German troops fraternising on Christmas Day 1914\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">British and German troops fraternising on Christmas Day 1914<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6263\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6263\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image10.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image10-259x300.jpeg\" alt=\"A combatant, conchie and ambulance driver; the Whiteford brothers go to \u2018war\u2019\" width=\"259\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A combatant, conchie and ambulance driver; the Whiteford brothers go to \u2018war\u2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Watch this talk:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"iframe-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GzncXT9DxZM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two talks: &#8220;The Bristol Deserter \u2013 Alfred Jefferies \u2013 His War Story&#8221; (a Bristolian shot for desertion) and &#8220;Freedom of Soul&#8221; (Bristol union resistance to the war).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[190,730],"tags":[766,1023,826,570,791],"class_list":["post-6241","events","type-events","status-publish","hentry","category-radical-bristol","category-ww1","tag-alfred-jefferies","tag-arthur-jeffries","tag-conscientious-objectors","tag-independent-labour-party","tag-whiteford-brothers"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Deserters, Conchies and Reds - Bristol Radical History Group<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A talk about resistance to world war one from deserters and trade unionists in Bristol. 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