JEFFERY, Arthur Ormond (1891-1958)
JEFFERY, Arthur Ormond (1891-1958)
Arthur Jeffery was born at Nine Mile Creek on 26 February 1891, the son of Joseph Jeffery and Agnes nee Dockery. He boarded at Geelong College from 1906 and his entry address was 'Glandore', Wunghnu, Victoria. In 1906 he was awarded 1st Prize of Form VB in both English and Geography.
He was working on his father’s farm when he enlisted (No 2212) in the AIF on 16 March 1916, and embarked for France with 57 Battalion (4th Reinforcement Group) on HMAT A67 Orsova on 1 August 1916, serving with his battalion through the last years of the war. He was granted leave in England in October 1917.
On 5 May 1918 he was promoted to Lance Corporal but was subsequently evacuated to Bath War Hospital after he received a gunshot wound to the right thigh on 24 September 1918. He was invalided to Australia, embarking on 2 January 1919 on HS Karmala.
The Australian War Memorial (AWM) Collection holds a portrait of Arthur Ormond Jeffery, taken on about 11 June 1916, one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had the concession to take photographs at the Broadmeadows and Seymour army camps during the First World War. In the 1930’s, the Australian War Museum purchased the original glass negatives from Algernon Darge, along with the photographers’ notebooks. The notebooks contain brief details, usually a surname or unit name, for each negative. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.
He died on 31 March 1958.
Arthur Jeffery was born at Nine Mile Creek on 26 February 1891, the son of Joseph Jeffery and Agnes nee Dockery. He boarded at Geelong College from 1906 and his entry address was 'Glandore', Wunghnu, Victoria. In 1906 he was awarded 1st Prize of Form VB in both English and Geography.
He was working on his father’s farm when he enlisted (No 2212) in the AIF on 16 March 1916, and embarked for France with 57 Battalion (4th Reinforcement Group) on HMAT A67 Orsova on 1 August 1916, serving with his battalion through the last years of the war. He was granted leave in England in October 1917.
On 5 May 1918 he was promoted to Lance Corporal but was subsequently evacuated to Bath War Hospital after he received a gunshot wound to the right thigh on 24 September 1918. He was invalided to Australia, embarking on 2 January 1919 on HS Karmala.
The Australian War Memorial (AWM) Collection holds a portrait of Arthur Ormond Jeffery, taken on about 11 June 1916, one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had the concession to take photographs at the Broadmeadows and Seymour army camps during the First World War. In the 1930’s, the Australian War Museum purchased the original glass negatives from Algernon Darge, along with the photographers’ notebooks. The notebooks contain brief details, usually a surname or unit name, for each negative. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.
He died on 31 March 1958.
Source
Based on an edited extract from Geelong Collegians at the Great War compiled by James Affleck. p 225 (citing Pegasus; National Archives; Australian War Memorial DA15597).