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“The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.”
Czeslaw Milosz
MEMORIAL GROUND
"1914-1918 In proud and grateful memory of the services rendered to their country in the Great War, by rugby football players of Bristol. This ground was established 1921"
"1939-1945 And in the World War of 1939-45, the rugby football players of this city gave their services and their lives. To them also this ground is a memorial"
A book on the history of the Memorial Ground and the rugby players of Bristol it is dedicated to.
To be published in 2021
Current Progress in identifying the rugby players of Bristol the Memorial Ground is dedicated to
WW1 - 362
WW2 - 251
This site was started in February 2016. It is going to take a while.
Last updated 20th July 2020
The Clubs that lost players so far identified
WW1
3rd Officers Cadets - 2
Anglesea Place School - 1
Anglesea Place Old Boys - 2
Avonmouth Old Boys - 2
Barton Hill Old Boys - 3
Barton Hill School - 1
Bath - 3
Berkeley & Sharpness - 1
Bishopston - 4
Blackheath - 1
Border Regiment - 1
Bristol - 26
Bristol Forces - 4
Bristol Grammar Old Boys - 3
Bristol Grammar (Past & Present) - 2
Bristol Grammar School - 19
Bristol Medicals - 3
Bristol Saracens - 12
Bristol South - 1
Bristol University - 9
Bristol Volunteer Regiment (Athletes Battalion) - 2
Broad Plain - 2
Bromsgrove School - 1
Cheltenham Old Boys - 1
Clifton - 71
Clifton College - 100
Colston's School - 12
Cotham Park - 2
Dings - 8
Elton St Michael - 1
England XV - 1
Fairfield School - 3
Glamorgan Wanderers - 1
Gloucestershire Regiment - 17
Horfield - 2
Huddersfield Old Boys - 1
Imperial - 7
Keynsham & District - 2
Knowle - 5
Long Ashton School - 1
Manchester - 1
Newport - 2
Old Cliftonians - 37
Oldfield Park - 1
Redland - 2
Redcliffe School - 1
Rosslyn Park - 1
Royal Army Medical Corps - 2
Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst - 3
Royal Miliatary Academy, Woolwich - 3
St Agnes Old Boys - 38
St George Old Boys - 1
St. George School - 1
St Mary's Old Boys - 5
St Nicholas with St. Leonard's School - 1
St Nicholas with St Leonard's Old Boys - 3
Shaftesbury - 2
Stothert & Pitt - 2
United Service - 2
Walcot Old Boys - 1
Weston-super-Mare - 3
YMCA - 2
Unknown - 9
WW2
Ashley Down Old Boys - 2
Avonmouth Old Boys - 2
Barton Hill School -1
Bath - 2
Bishopston - 9
Bristol - 13
Bristol Grammar School - 10
Bristol Harlequins - 2
Bristol Irish - 1
Bristol Police - 1
Bristol Saracens - 8
Bristol Supporters - 5
Bristol University - 13
Broad Plain - 5
Cambridge University - 1
Cleve - 12
Clevedon - 1
Clifton - 24
Clifton College - 34
Colston's School - 7
Cotham School - 6
Emmanuel College - 1
Frys - 4
Gas Company - 2
Gloucester Old Boys - 1
Gloucestershire Regiment - 1
Gonville & Caius, Cambridge - 1
Herne Bay School - 1
Horfield Athletic - 6
Horfield Baptist Church - 1
Imperial - 5
Keynsham - 5
Lodway - 1
Marksbury - 2
Midsomer Norton - 1
North Bristol - 7
Old Bristolians - 6
Old Cliftonians - 3
Old Colstonians - 3
Old Cothamians - 7
Old Redcliffians - 6
Old Sulians - 8
Old Wickonians - 2
Portishead - 4
QEH School - 1
QEH Old Boys - 5
Rosslyn Park - 2
Royal Air Force - 1
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich - 1
St Agnes Old Boys - 1
St Andrews - 7
St Barnabas and Moorfield Old Boys - 4
St Brendans Old Boys - 6
St Marys Bathwick - 1
St Nicholas with St Leonard's Old Boys - 2
St Nicholas with St Leonard's School - 1
Stokes Croft Old Boys - 3
Stothert & Pitt - 1
Walcot Old Boys - 6
Whitehall - 3
Yeovil - 2
Unknown - 1
Note several players played for more than one team so have been counted more than once
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