A SERVICE has been held to remember soldiers who were executed for mutiny during the First World War.

The names of three soldiers were added to the National Memorial Arboretum’s Shot at Dawn memorials, which commemorates 306 soldiers killed for desertion or cowardice during the conflict.

One of the three to be remembered was Jesse Robert Short, from Newcastle, a corporal in the 24th Battalion (Tyneside Irish) Northumberland Fusiliers, who is thought to have been the inspiration behind the TV drama Monocled Mutineer.

Cpl Short apparently incited his men to throw an officer in the river at Etaples in September 1917.

New Zealander Private Jack Braithwaite and Gunner William Lewis, from Scotland, were also remembered at the service on Saturday, October 29.

Neil Graham, a descendant of Cpl Short, attended.