Name
Charles John Jeffrey
1890
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/04/1915
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
19391
Bedfordshire Regiment
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DOVERCOURT CEMETERY
New portion. 2013.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Thy Will Be Done
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Brent Pelham memorials, Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials
Pre War
Charles John
Jeffrey was born in 1890 in Brent Pelham, Herts, the only son of Walter and
Emily Jeffrey's three children. The
family were living in the village of Brent Pelham on the 1891 Census but had
moved to 96 Southborough Road, East Ham, Essex by 1901. On both censuses he is called John. On the 1911 Census,
when he is named as Charles John
Jeffrey the family was living at 111 South Mill, London Road, Bishop's
Stortford, Herts and he was working as a labourer in a nursery.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hertford and served in the Bedfordshire Regiment, 4th Battalion. He died at Dovercourt Military Hospital which was a section of the Garrison Military Hospital, Harwich. It was also used as an Isolation Hospital to care for soldiers with infectious diseases. The Register of Soldiers' Effects and Dependant's Pension record state that he died of wounds, however this may be incorrect and he may have died of disease as there is no record of any medals being awarded to him.
Additional Information
His father Walter received a £3 war gratuity and pay owing of £2 4s 8d and a pension of five shillings a week from 15 November 1916. He was said to be living at 36 Church Road, Hollingbury [probably Great Hallingbury], Bishop's Stortford. N.B. Surname Jeffrey mis-transcribed as Jaffray on 1891 Census. Dovercourt
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, Paul Johnson
