This memorial page is dedicated to John Gwynfor Jeffreys, one of more than 725 war victims connected to the municipality of Deurne documented by Stichting Oorlogsslachtoffers. The municipality of Deurne and the surrounding villages of Liessel, Vlierden, Helenaveen, Neerkant and Zeilberg were liberated in the autumn of 1944 during heavy fighting. Victims fell on all sides: Allied soldiers from countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and New Zealand, and German soldiers.

But the archive covers more than just the combat victims on Deurne soil. Residents of Deurne who lost their lives elsewhere are also commemorated: civilians who were murdered in concentration camps, forced labourers who died in Germany, people who were executed or succumbed to the effects of persecution and oppression. In addition, residents of Deurne who entered German military service and were killed elsewhere are also included.

Stichting Oorlogsslachtoffers has been documenting the story of all these people since 1995, without distinction of nationality, side or background. The goal is to give every person a name and a face, and to keep their memory alive.

 

Name: Jeffreys
First names: John Gwynfor
Nickname: –
Date of birth: –
Place of birth: Carmarthenshire
Residence: Carmarthenshire
Rank / Occupation: Lance Corporal
Identity tag: 2737920
Unit: Welsh Guards, 1st Battalion
Date of death: 8 November 1944
Place of death: Deurne
Cause of death: –
Cemetery: Mierlo War Cemetery
Memorial site: –

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Additional information

Grave location: VII. F. 3.

Aged 23. Son of William Edmund and Mary Annie Jeffreys, of Llanelly, Carmarthenshire. Captain of the Welsh Guards Rugby Football team.

John Gwynfor Jeffreys’s field grave was situated near the NAD Camp Wasberg, also known as Camp Wasberg, located between Langstraat and Suezlaan in Deurne

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