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Military service
Service number:
CDN/424
Age:
23
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
South Staffordshire Regiment
Division:
1st / 6th
Birth:
February 20, 1921
Canandaigua
Enlistment:
March 24, 1942
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
July 16, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
V. C. 9.
Additional information
Peter Jeffries was a member of the Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, he died while serving with the South Staffordshire Regiment as a CANLOAN Officer.
Son of Mrs. Stella Jefferies of Rochester, New York.
Husband of Irene F. Abbott Jefferies of Baldwinsville, Oswego County, New York.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 345 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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FONTENAY-LE-PESNEL WAR CEMETERY, TESSEL Calvados, France
The village of Fontenay-le-Pesnel lies 16 kilometres west of Caen on the main road (the D9) towards Caumont l'Evente. The cemetery is 1 kilometre south-east of the hamlet of St Martin (on the D139 to Grainville); on reaching a large memorial to the 49th (West Riding) Division, turn down the track opposite the memorial which leads directly to the cemetery.
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