JEFFREY, David
| Service Number: | 2352 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 40th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 4 August 1917, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Devonport Cenotaph, Kentish Municipality Honour Roll Mural, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient) |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 2352, 40th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Melbourne embarkation_ship_number: A16 public_note: '' | |
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| 21 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 2352, 40th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Port Melbourne, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
THE LATE PRIVATE JEFFREY.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Jeffrey, of Steel st., have received a letter from Pte. Row Wilson, concerning the death of their son Dave, who was recently killed in action in France. It states that after 18 days in the firing line, they were coming out, when Pte. Jeffrey waited for some comrades who were behind. The Germans opened fire at that moment, and a high explosive shell fell where he was standing. Pte. Wilson states that he was a fine soldier, and frightened of nothing, and conveys the deepest sympathy of comrades and Devonport boys of the Battalion to the mourning parents. Pte. Jeffrey was buried by the Pioneers in a cemetery on the main road between Neuve-Eglise and Messines. They erected a white wooden cross, bearing his regimental number, name and battalion, over the grave.