JEFFERIES Hugh Acton

  • First Name(s):
    Hugh 
    Acton 
  • Surname:
    JEFFERIES
  • Service Number:
    69181
  • Rank:

    Captain

  • Conflict:
    WW2
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Royal Irish Fusiliers
  • Battalion:
    1st Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    19th May 1940
  • Age At Death:
    24
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Outer Communal Cemetery, Belgium, Grave 264.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Lt.-Colonel Hugh St. John Jeffries and Elizabeth Mary Jefferies, of Wexford, Irish Republic

Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

JEFFERIES Hugh Acton Is Named On These Memorials

Kempsey St Mary’s Church

Further Information About JEFFERIES Hugh Acton

Appears on the Army casualties list for Worcestershire.

The following report appears in Berrow’s Worcester Journal, Saturday 15th June 1940:
Other Casualties
Capt. Hugh Acton Jefferies, The Royal Irish Fusiliers, who is reported killed in action, was in his 24th year. He was the only child of Lieutenant-Colonel H. St. J. and Mrs Jefferies of Napleton Grange, Kempsey, Worcester, and entered the Army in 1936.

A letter from the Reverend H.W. Glasgow, Kempsey Vicarage, dated 17th May 1950 can be found within war records held at Worcestershire Archives requesting that Wing Captain Hugh Acton Jefferies, Royal Irish Fusiliers, be added to the county roll of honour.

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