New ‘Pompey Pals’ information boards and a memorial panel will be unveiled at Fratton Park ahead of Saturday’s match against Peterborough.
This will take place at the junction of Frogmore Road and Carisbrooke Road between 2.15pm and 2.25pm, and fans are welcome to attend.
September 3 was chosen as it was on this date in 1916 that the 14th Battalion Hampshire Regiment (1st Portsmouth Own) went into battle at the Ancre on the Somme. Of the 587 men who went ‘over the top’ on that day, 440 became casualties.
Pompey chief executive Andrew Cullen will join representatives from the Armed Forces Supporters’ Club and the Pompey Pals charity in laying wreaths of remembrance.
The newly designed and updated information boards – that detail a timeline from 1914 to the present day – will replace the original ones that were erected in August 2014 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the start of World War One.
Also being unveiled is a memorial panel to all Portsmouth FC players who served in the UK armed forces during the war.
The Pompey Pals
The Pompey Pals charity was initially set up to erect a memorial at Fratton Park to honour the Portsmouth men who, during the First World War, joined the 14th & 15th Battalions of The Hampshire Regiment known as The Pompey Pals.
Since 2014, the charity has expanded its aims and now looks to honour and commemorate all Portsmouth citizens who have served in this country’s armed forces or who have lost their lives as a result of enemy action from 1914 to the present day.
Click here to learn more about the charity.