This name is on the St Mark's War Memorial, Kennington Oval, London SE11
(Charles James Jeffery)
(Jeffery, Charles James)
Service no G/1403
Corporal, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), 7th Battalion
Killed in action on 30 September 1916, aged about 38.
Remembered at Mill Road Cemetery, Thiepval, Somme, France, at Bexhill-on-Sea war memorial (on the seafront) and at St Mark's Church, Kennington, London SE11.
Born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, lived in Kennington.
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 Charles James Jeffrey, then 33, was a working as a machinist for London County Council Tramways and living at 25 St Agnes Place, London SE11, where he and his wife Maud, 30, ran a boarding house. Both he and Muad were born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, and had a son, James Frederick Jeffrey, 5, born in Southfields, Wandsworth. On the night of the census there were 9 lodgers living with the Jeffreys in the 11 roomed house.