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John Ashby Jeffrey

Private

Service No. 23635

Age 39

Died on 17 July 1916

Leicestershire Regiment

THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

Somme, France

Son of Joseph and Martha Jeffrey, of 91, Buller Rd., Leicester; husband of Harriet Brown (formerly Jeffrey), of Church St., Sapcote, Leicester. Served in the South African Campaign with Durham Light Inf.

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Henry Harrison

John, O valiant heart, who to your glory came ….. your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

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John, I am not aware of the precise circumstances of your death, nor what caused it, but, as a former soldier in the 1st and 7th Battalions ...

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