When Arthur Jarrett of Fishponds volunteered for the Army at the start of the First World War, he might have expected to go into the local regiment, the Gloucestershires. But he joined at a time when Regular Army regiments had suffered huge losses in the first battles of the war, and men from anywhere were drafted in to rebuild these regiments. So Private (later Sergeant) Jarrett found himself in a Scottish regiment, the Seaforth Highlanders, with a kilt as part of the uniform. Arthur Jarrett was 20 years old. He saw fighting in France. He was invalided out after being gassed, and spent the rest of the war in a training battalion in England. After the war, he married Elsie Breddy and lived in Fishponds. Before the war he had played for Bristol Rovers, but the effects of the gas probably stopped him playing professionally. He died aged 80.