LEST WE FORGET
Aircraftman Class I Horace Ewan Kingsbury JEFFERY
Service No: 63038
Born: Marrickville NSW, 6 February 1914
Enlisted in the RAAF: 19 March 1942
Unit: No. 13 Aircraft Repair Depot, Tocumwal NSW
Died: Drowned, Murray River, 26 March 1943, Aged 29 Years
Buried: Tocumwal General Cemetery, NSW
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Robert Ewen Alexander and Linda Muriel Jeffrey; husband of Marie Patricia Jeffery, of Five Dock
Roll of Honour: Vaucluse NSW
Remembered: Panel 113, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 26 March 1943, Aircraftman Class I Jeffery, a Fitter II Engines, drowned while swimming in the Murray River near Tocumwal, New South Wales.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/20/24