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Captain HUGH ACTON JEFFERIES

Service Number: 69181
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Irish Fusiliers

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 19 May 1940

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

OUTER COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Grave 264.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Lt.-Col. Hugh St. John Jeffries and Elizabeth Mary Jefferies, of Wexford, Irish Republic.
  • Personal Inscription "HE ASKED LIFE OF THEE, AND THOU GAVEST HIM A LONG LIFE, EVEN FOR EVER"
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Buried or commemorated at

OUTER COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Oost-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 6
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