Captain Clarence Jeffries, 34th Battalion, Victoria Cross
action at Passchendaele , Belgium
The 9th Australian Brigade suffered bitter losses in its
ill-fated attack on Passchendaele on 12
October 1917 . Before he became one of the officers killed there,
Clarence "Jeff" Jeffries had led attacks on German machine-gun posts,
capturing several guns and killing or capturing their crews.
Jeffries was just 22 and his family was well known in the Newcastle Belgium
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