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Corporal Joseph Bunker Jeffery
Joseph Bunker Jeffery
Regimental Number:
222979
Regiment:
Canadian Infantry
Battalion:
85th Battalion
Date of Death:
October 4, 1918
Age at Death:
25
Place of Birth:
Pleasant Lake, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia
Next of Kin:
Mrs Bell Tinkham (sister), Springhaven, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia
Date of Birth:
July 10, 1893
Trade:
blacksmith
Marital Status:
Single
Joseph Jeffery, aged 22, enlisted at Halifax, N.S. on October 29, 1915
Height:
5 Feet 6 Inches
Chest:
37 Inches
Expansion:
2 Inches
Religion:
Baptist
Buried at:
ST. POL BRITISH CEMETERY, ST. POL-SUR-TERNOISE
Plot:
III. B. 12.
Commemorated on Page 436 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
Joseph died of wounds, a fractured skull, in France on October 4, 1918 at the age of 25. He had
been injured when the Germans dropped a bomb through the roof of the railway station at Arras
the night of September 25. He had been promoted to Corporal on June 20, 1918. He was wounded
at Vimy, April 8, 1917 and rejoined his company on November 24th, 1917 after a long
hospitalization.