Richard Griffith Bassett Jeffreys, DSO

1876 - 1923  (47 years)

• Name	Richard Griffith Bassett Jeffreys
  Suffix	DSO
  Born	10 Jan 1876	Dunmore, County Galway
  Gender	Male
  Life Story	Richard Griffith Bassett Jeffreys was born on the 10th of January 1876 at Dunmore County Galway. His father was an army officer and he went to England for his education at Bedford School, after which he joined the army and underwent his officers training. He was commissioned into the Royal Dublin Fusiliers and was soon sent to South Africa where during the Boer War he was mentioned in Lord Robert?s dispatches whilst attached to the Mounted Infantry. It was 1916 before Jeffreys was first sent to France during the First World War, arriving in Bolougne less than a month before the first day of the Somme offensive, in which he was to personally play little part. However later in the war Jeffreys and his battalion played major roles in battles at Messines and Passachaendaele, which resulted in him being mentioned in dispatches three times, (including once by Sir Douglas Haig). He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in the new year of 1918 and stayed with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers until their disbandment along with all of the other southern Irish regiments in 1922. With the disbandment of the regiment he had served with for over 20 years, he was sent to the 2nd Battalion North Stafford Regiment where he was appointed second in command. His time with this regiment however was short lived, while on two months leave, on the 10th of January 1923, Jeffreys and his wife Grace, whom he had married in 1909, were killed when the plane in which they were flying crashed near Ajaccio, Corsica. [From https://royaldublinfusiliers.com/books/jeffreysletters/ ]
  Died	10 Jan 1923	Appietto, near Ajaccio, Corsica
  	He and his wife were killed in a plane crash: https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-liore-et-olivier-leo-h-13-appietto-4-killed
  Person ID	I45	Mark Fogg-Elliot
  Last Modified	13 May 2023

  
  

  Family	Grace Peel,   d. 10 Jan 1923, Appietto, near Ajaccio, Corsica
  Married	c.Sep 1909	St George Hanover Square
  Children	+ 1. Ruth Grace Jeffreys,   b. 21 Sep 1910, Naas, Ireland ,   d. 21 Jun 2006, Deben district, Suffolk  (Age 95 years)   2. Patrick Peel Jeffreys,   b. c.Mar 1915, East Grinstead
  Last Modified	13 May 2023
  Family ID	F117	Group Sheet

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Lieutenant Colonel R.G.B. Jeffreys
  		Lieutenant Colonel R.G.B. Jeffreys
  		Lioré-et-Olivier LeO H-13 An aeroplane of the type in which Richard Jeffreys and his wife Grace lost their lives on 10 January 1923.