Name
Arthur William Jefford
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/04/1917
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
754448
Canadian Infantry
“A” Company, 73rd Bn
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BARLIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
I. G. 61.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Croxley Green Village Memorial, Croxley Green
All Saints' Church Shrine, Croxley Green
Rickmansworth Town Memorial
Not on the Berkhamsted memorials
Pre War
He was born on 2 August 1893 in St Albans and was 23 when he died. In 1911 he lived with his parents, Ernest William and Ellen Jefford, in Croxley Hall Farm Cottages. The family were farm labourers who seem to have moved around from farm to farm in the Watford and St. Albans area. Arthur emigrated to Canada. When he enlisted on 6 February 1916 he was living at 25 Gore St., Sault Ste Marie, Ontario and he set sail for Europe from Halifax on SS Metagama on 8 August 1916. Ernest and Ellen were still at Croxley Hall in 1918 but subsequently moved to Berkhamsted.
Wartime Service
Arthur William Jefford died during the Arras offensive. He is buried in Barlin communal cemetery extension south of Bethune. The cemetery extension was used for burials by the 6th Casualty Clearing Station which was located in the town. Lance Corporal Jefford served in A Company, 73rd Battalion Canadian Infantry and in the Canadian Field Ambulance.
Acknowledgments
Croxley Green in the First World War’ by Brian Thomson (Rickmansworth Historical Society 2014)
