Eli Jefferies
Memorial: South Gloucestershire war dead not on a local memorial
Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment
Medals: 1914–15 Star, British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Silver War Badge, Victory Medal
Rank and number: Private 266440
Parents: Sarah and John Jefferies
Home address: High Street, Oldland Common, Bristol
Pre-war occupation: Paper Mill Machinist
Date of birth: 1896
Place of birth: Oldland Common, Bristol
Date of death: 02/09/1918
Buried/Commemorated at: No known burial site. Commemorated at Ploegsteert Memorial, Hainaut, Belgium. Not commemorated on a local memorial.
Age: 22
Further information:
Eli was born in Oldland Common, the son of a paper mill worker and a middle child of five children with two brothers and two sisters.
Eli served with the 2nd/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment and was Killed in Action during the Allied Hundred Days Offensive (8 August – 11 November 1918) that brought about the end of WW1 but at a cost of over a million allied casualties. Eli’s body was never identified and the Ploegsteert Memorial where he is remembered, commemorates more than 11,000 servicemen of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in this sector during the First World War and have no known grave.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
This information has been provided by Sarah Hands, Volunteer Researcher for the South Gloucestershire War Memorials Web Site.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
https://www.cwgc.org/
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/
Some information supplied by Kingswood Heritage Museum