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Robert Jeffrey
CWGC:
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment: Royal Scots, 1st/9th Battalion
No: 44247
Date of Death: 1st August 1918
Age: 19
Buried: Raperie British Cemetery, Villemontoire
Additional Information: Son of Sarah Jeffrey, 12 Meadowpark Street, Dennistoun and the late Mr Jeffrey.
SNWM:
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment: Royal Scots, 9th Battalion
No: 44247
Formerly Highland Light Infantry, No. 56487
Place of Birth: Glasgow
Date of Death: 1st August 1918
Place of Death: France & Flanders
Cause of Death: Killed in Action
SDGW:
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment: Royal Scots, 9th Battalion
No: 44247
Formerly Highland Light Infantry, No. 56487
Place of Birth: Glasgow
Place of Enlistment: Glasgow
Date of Death: 1st August 1918
Place of Death: France & Flanders
Cause of Death: Killed in Action
MIC:
Robert Jeffrey, Private, Royal Scots, No. 44247
Medal Entitlement: British War & Victory Medals
Service Records:
Robert Jeffrey, 12 Meadowpark Street, Glasgow
Attested at Glasgow, 24th February 1917, 56th Training Reserve Battalion, No. TR/2/18066
Age 17 years 11 months. Height 5 feet 10 ½ ins. Commercial Clerk
N.O.K: Mother Sarah Jeffrey, 12 Meadowpark Street, Glasgow
Transferred to 53rd T.R. Battalion, 30th June 1917, No. 56487
Transferred to 201st Infantry Battalion, 18th September 1917, No. 18066
Transferred from Highland Light Infantry to 9th Battalion (Highlanders) The Royal Scots, 31st March 1918, No. 44247
Killed in Action. Place of Burial: Raperie British Cemetery, about 5¾ miles south of Soissons
Deceased Soldier’s Living Relatives form completed by mother 1st July 1920
Mother Sarah Jeffrey, Brothers William Jeffrey, age 28, Richard Jeffrey, age 18, resident at 12 Meadowpark Street.
Sisters Sarah Lester?, age 35, 14 Shoemaker Avenue, Detroit, USA, Jean Penny, age 34, 154 Thomson Street, Glasgow, Rachel Moffat?, age 33, 142 Adamswell Street, Springburn & Harriet Jeffrey, age 26, 12 Meadowpark Street, Glasgow.
Uncle William Peden, age 62, Roseberry Lodge, Monklands Lane, Woodford Green, Essex.
Soldiers’ Effects:
Robert Jeffrey, Private/Lance Corporal, 9th Battalion, Royal Scots, No. 44247. Killed in Action in France 1st August 1918.
Mother/Sole Legatee Sarah.
Glasgow Herald, 28th August 1918. ‘Deaths on Service’
Jeffrey. Killed in action, 1st August 1918, Lance Corporal Robert Jeffrey, No. 44247, Royal Scots, aged 19 years and 4 months, second youngest son of the late Robert Jeffrey and of Mrs Jeffrey, 12 Meadowpark Street, Dennistoun, Glasgow.
Listed on Glasgow Roll of Honour: Lance Corporal Robert Jeffrey, Royal Scots, 12 Meadowpark Street, Dennistoun.
1901 Census, Living at 697 Duke Street, Dennistoun
Father Robert Jeffrey, age 44, Coal Contractor, born Glasgow
Mother Sarah Jeffrey, age 40, born Edinburgh
Children: Sarah Jeffrey, age 16, Waitress, born Glasgow
Jane Jefffrey, age 15, Mother’s Help, born Glasgow
Rachel Jeffrey, age 13, Scholar, born Glasgow
William Jeffrey, age 9, Scholar, born Glasgow
Harriet Jeffrey, age 7, Scholar, born Glasgow
Alexander Jeffrey, age 5, Scholar, born Glasgow
Robert Jeffrey, age 2, born Glasgow