Name
George Leslie Stuart Jeffreys
1885
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/09/1914
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
6382
Wiltshire Regiment
1st Bn
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star (with Clasp & Roses), British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LA FERTE-SOUS-JOUARRE MEMORIAL
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone
UK & Other Memorials
St Matthews Church Memorial, Oxhey, Oxhey War Memorial.
Pre War
George Leslie Stuart Jeffreys was born in 1885, in Eynsham, Oxfordshire, son of William Walker Jeffreys (1837 - 1906) a Boot and Shoe maker and Emma Jeffreys (1842 - 1914) (nee Green). George was the youngest of 13 children.
1891 Census records George aged 6, at school, living with his parents, and brothers, Frederick 19, Jesse 18, Francis 16, Thomas 12 and Noble 9, at Acre End Street, Eynsham, Oxon.
1901 Census records George and his brother Noble working as window cleaners in Birmingham and boarding with their employer at 14, Coleshill Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire.
His father William Walker Jeffreys died in 1906, aged 70.
By 1911 George was back in Eynsham, working as a railway Labourer, living with his widowed mother, brothers Jesse and Thomas, at Acre End Street, Eynsham, Oxon.
In the early part of 1912 George married Minnie Jeffries, in Aston, Warwickshire.
His connection to Oxhey is through his older brother Percy James Jeffreys and his wife Leah who lived in the Watford / Bushey area.
Wartime Service
George enlisted in Swindon, Wiltshire, posted to the Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire) Regiment with the service number 6383. He arrived in France on 31st August 1914, just four weeks later on 22nd September 1914, George died of wound he had received in action at No 9. Field Ambulance, Vailly, France.
His Medal card indicates he was awarded the 1914 Star & Clasp, and the Victory Medal. But not the British War medal. The Service Medal and Awards Roll confirms he was awarded the British War Medal.
Additional Information
His wife Minnie received a widows Pension of 19/6 a week. The value of his effects were £2-17s-6d, Pay Owing and £5, War Gratuity which went to his widow Minnie.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
