Major JOHN NOBLE JEPHSON
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Munster Fusiliers
6th Bn.
Date of Death
Died 29 August 1915
Age 50 years old
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Awards Mentioned in Despatches
- Additional Info Second Son of the late Dep. Insp. Gen. William Holmes Jephson, M.D., husband of Lilian Jephson, of "Thandiani", Paignton, Devon. Of his two sons, the elder served also at Gallipoli and was granted the M.C.
- Personal Inscription DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI THY WILL BE DONE
- Additional Citation note
Royal Artillery, Indian Army. (Retired). Took on his own initiative an important post in the Dardanelles (afterwards called "Jephson's Post"), where he was wounded.
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