Private James Jeffrey

Private James Jeffrey, 17th ( Service ) Battalion, Royal Scots.  He was killed in action in Belgium by shellfire on 24th October 1917 during the Third Battle of Ypres. He was the eldest son of Nicholas and Isabella Jeffrey who ran the village shop and Post Office in Cornhill-on-Tweed and he is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, Flanders, Belgium.  At the time of his death he had been on sentry duty in his section of a front line trench. He is also commemorated on the Roger Church memorial plaque now placed in Coldstream Parish Church. The photographs show the desolation of the Flanders battlefield where the incessant shelling had destroyed the fragile drainage systems.

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