JEFF Arthur

39409 Pte Arthur JEFF East Yorkshire Regiment

General Service Medal IRAQ

This clasp was presented to those who satisfied one of the following conditions:
Served at Ramadi or north of a line east and west through Ramadi between 10 December 1919 and 13 June 1920.
Part of an establishment within Iraq between 1 July and 17 November 1920.

Arthur JEFF was born at Attercliffe, Sheffield in 1889. He can be found in the census records of 1901, living at 7 Stevenson Road Attercliffe and in the 1911 census at 28 Bessemer Place Attercliffe.

Bessemer Place c.1960

His parents are recorded as being Arthur and Annie Eliza JEFF but his mother has remarried by 1911 and he is shown as the step son of Albert WELLER.His medal index card shows an address of 5 Hammerton Street, Attercliffe, Sheffield. Number 28 is furthest right in the top image. Arthur is recorded as having passed away in Sheffield aged 66 in December 1965.