JEFFREYS, John Darrell
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Rank:
Lieutenant
Unit / Base:
2 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Kings Own Scottish Borderers
Service:
Army
Service Number:
95277
Died :
Monday, August 16, 1943
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age:
23
Cemetery/Memorial:
Lieutenant John Jeffreys, 2 troop, died during operations at Scaletta, Sicily. Son of Captain Robin Edmund Jeffreys, D.S.C., R.N., and Marjorie Ellenwood Jeffreys, of Great Chesterford, Essex.
His younger brother Flight Lieutenant Edmund Henry Jeffreys D.F.C., 248 Sqn., R.A.F.V.R., also died in the war on 10 June 1944 and is remembered on the Runnymede Memorial.
Sources
CWGC.
Memorial plaque at St John the Baptist Church, Church Lane, Doddington, Swale, Kent.
IWM War Memorials Register ref WM 22824.
[Image] Cropped from Troop photo in Gallery].
Primary Roll of Honour:
Photo of Commando in Gallery:
Yes
Photo of grave in Gallery:
Yes
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