Name Clarence Smith Jeffries No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 902 Awards VC
Regiment 34th (New South Wales) Battalion, AIF
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Captain
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth Wallsend, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Place Of Death Hillside Farm, Passchendaele, Belgium
Buried/Location Ashes Tyne Cot Cemetery, Passchendaele, 5 miles north-east of Ypres, Belgium
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 14 September 1920
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Plot 40, Row E, Grave 1
Gazetted 18 December 1917
VC Presented 4 April 1918, Governor-General of Australia, Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson, Australia
Memorials
P Headstone, Tyne Cot Cemetery, Passchendaele, 5 miles north-east of Ypres, Belgium
Named on Roll of Honour, Panel 124, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Display, Hall of Valour, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P Victoria Cross Commemoration Paving Stone, National Memorial, Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
Named on War Memorial, Fedral Park, Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW
Memorial Plaque, Memorial Wall, Sandgate Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Clarence Jeffries Estate, Brunker Road, Adamstown, NSW, Australia
Jeffries & Currey Memorial Libary, Dudley Public School Libary, Dudley, NSW, Australia
Mural, Boundray Street, Dudley, NSW, Australia
Memorial Plaque, Newcastle Primary School Library, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Carved Chair at Holy Trinity Anglican Church,Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Jeffires Memorial Park, Abermain, NSW, Australia
Jefferis Street, Canberra, ACT, Australia
By The Way…
On the Headstone of Captain Jeffries VC is the lines of a poem by Theodore O'Hara, Bivouac of the Dead.
On Fame's eternal camping ground,
Their silent tents are spread,
And Glory guards, with solemn round,
The Bivouac of the dead
VC Held By
Warriors Chapel, Christchurch Cathedral, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
