Name
Herbert James Jeffery
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/10/1917
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
25484
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 48 to 50 and 162A
Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
Croxley Green Village Memorial, Croxley Green
Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial
Oddfellows Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Herbert was born on 26 August 1893 in Mill Hill, Middlesex. He was christened on 3 December 1893 at Frogmore, Hertfordshire, south of St. Albans. Herbert’s parents were Charles and Laura Jeffery.
Charles was a farm bailiff working at Maxal Farm, North Cray, Chislehurst, Kent in 1901. In 1911 Charles referred to himself as a disengaged farm bailiff and the family had moved to 38 Talbot Road in Rickmansworth. Herbert was working as a builder’s clerk.
He married Cissie Child in 1915 and they lived at 132 New Road, Croxley Green. They had a son Richard Walter Jeffery who was baptised at All Saints’ on 29 November 1916.
He is recorded as enlisting in Bedford.
Wartime Service
Herbert James Jeffrey, 1st Bedfordshire Regiment was killed in action on 25th October 1917 during the offensive at 3rd Ypres. The Battalion was in Stirling Castle on the Menin Road east of Ypres which was heavily shelled at intervals throughout the day.
Acknowledgments
Tanya Britton, Brian Thomson, Croxley Green in the First World War Rickmansworth Historical Society 2014
