Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private C. Jefferies, Essex Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between clasps, and the SA01 clasp a tailor’s copy (7244 Pte. C. Jeffries [sic]. Essex Regt.); 1914-15 Star (3-2923 Pte. C. Jefferies. Essex R.); British War and Victory Medals (3-2923 Pte. C. Jefferies. Essex R.) mounted as worn, edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine (4) £120-£160

Christopher Jefferies (also recorded as Jeffries and Jeffreys) was born in Great Clacton on 16 February 1885 and served with the 3rd Battalion, Essex Regiment in South Africa during the Boer War (entitled to Cape Colony and South Africa 1902 clasps only). He saw further service with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 24 March 1915, and later transferred to the Northamptonshire Regiment. He was discharged Class ‘Z’ on 29 April 1919, and died in Colchester in 1967.