Edmund Henry Jeffreys
Person details
| Forename(s) | Edmund Henry |
|---|---|
| Surname | Jeffreys |
| Rank | Flight Lieutenant |
| Regiment | RAFVR |
| Age | 23 |
| Death | Killed in action |
| Place of Death | Western Europe > Off the coast of France |
| Date of Death | 10/06/1944 |
| Year of Entry | 1935 |
| House Letter | C |
| School Notes | - |
| Comments |
Anti-shipping unit of Coastal Command Many of the books on mountaineering given in his memory are still in the school library War record of 248 Squadron http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/248squadron.cfm |
| Commonwealth War Graves Commission Link | https://www.cwgc.org/find-record... |
| Unit | 248 Squadron |
| Prefect | - |
| Military Decorations | DFC |
| Album Number | 22 |
| Battle | |
| Previous Regiment | - |
| Burial or Cemetery | Memorial > Runnymede |
| Citations | |
| Archives | Correspondence file in OR files in Radley Archives |
| Post School | British Power Boat Co. |
| Prep School | St Michael's, Uckfield |
| Prisoner of War | |
| Radlein Obituary |
November 19 1944. Killed in air operations off the French coast in June 1944, Edmund Henry Jeffreys, D.F.C., Flt. Lt., R.A.F.V.R. (Cocks's, C, 1935-38). Although Edmund Jeffreys did not stay long enough to achieve greatness at school, yet he was no nonentity: his contemporaries will recall, for instance, that he ran the mile for the School while he was still quite young. He had attractive qualities, and those who were privileged to know him well will remember particularly his interest in and love of nature, and subject on which he could also write happily. His desire to get into the Navy took him away, before his time, to cram, and his failure to pass in was a bitter disappointment to him. He was with the British Power Boat Co. for a time, and was commissioned as a pilot in the R.A.F.V.R. early in 1942. There he found himself, to such good effect as to make up for his earlier disappointment. In January, 1943, a shipping reconnaissance, successfully carried out in spite of difficult and adverse conditions, gained him the D.F.C. Subsequently he was transferred to a Mosquito squadron, and was flying one of these machines when he met his death. Our deepest sympathy goes out to his parents, all the more in that Edmund's elder brother lost his life in action some months before. One is impelled to quote the words of a correspondent who wrote in the 'Times' on Edmund's death: 'The last months of his life were clouded by the death in action of his elder brother, for love of family ranked with him even higher than love of nature. That cloud has been lifted from him; and England lacks another gallant figther pilot.' March 10 1946. The Wilson Library has been enriched by a munificent gift of 50 books on Mountaineering the bequest of the late FIt. Lt. E. H. Jeffreys, D.F.C., O.R. These books, for which Sir Henry Badeley, O.R., is designing a book-plate, will form a new and valuable sub-section of the Library, and we acknowledge with gratitude the generosity of this bequest. |
| Service Number | 116717 |
| Place of Birth |
