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JEFFERIES, Charles Henry
(Service number 6/2172)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	8 January 1887	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date	18 February 1915	Age	28 years
Address at Enlistment	Kongahu
Occupation	Labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	William JEFFERIES (father), Kongahu, Westport
Religion	Salvation Army
Medical Information	Height 5 feet 6½ inches. Weight 175 lbs. Chest Measurement 37½-40½ inches. Complexion sallow. Eyes blue. Hair brown. Sight, hearing & colour vision all normal. Limbs well formed. Full & perfect movement of all joints. Chest well formed. Teeth good. Free from hernia, varicocele, varicose veins, haemorrhoids, inveterate or contagious skin disease. Vaccinated. Good bodily & mental health. No slight defects. Accepted.

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	4th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	17 April 1915
Transport	Willochra or Knight Templar or Waitomo
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Balkan - Gallipoli; Egyptian; Western European
Service Medals	1914-1915 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date	19 June 1919	Reason	No longer physically fir for War Service on account of illness contracted on Active Service (otitis media & general debility).

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

7 August 1915 gunshot wound

Post-war Occupations

Farmer

Death

Date	12 June 1942	Age	55 years
Place of Death	Kairangi Settlement, Cambridge (residence)
Cause	Coronary thrombosis; chronic myocarditis; spondylitis
Notices	New Zealand Herald, 15 June 1942
Memorial or Cemetery	Leamington Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Block A, Row 4, Plot 38
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Charles Henry Jefferies was born on 8 January 1887 at Timaru, the second son of William Jefferies and his wife Ada née Cullimore. Charles Jefferies, or Harry as he was known, gave well over four years of war service, the majority overseas. In 1923 at Auckland he married Ella Beatrice Rawlinson or Keane. Ella and three sons in their teens survived him.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [11 May 2017]; NZ Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives NZ ref. AABK 18805 W5541 0060160) [11 May 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [11 May 2017]; Otago Witness, 15 September 1915, New Zealand HeraLDd, 15 & 25 June 1942 (Papers Past) [10 & 11May 2017]; Leamington Cemetery burial record (Waipa District Council) [11 May 2017]; Probate record (Archives NZ/FamilySearch) [11 May 2017]

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