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Private MATTHEW JEFFERSON

Service Number: 4396365
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

1/4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 25 February 1945

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

JONKERBOS WAR CEMETERY

2. F. 1.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Matthew and Elizabeth Ann Jefferson; husband of Ada Ethel Jefferson, of Wallsend, Northumberland.
  • Personal Inscription AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER HIM. WIFE AND SON
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Buried or commemorated at

JONKERBOS WAR CEMETERY
Gelderland Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1646
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