Claro Times - 29th October 1915

One of the first Harrogate lads to fall in the war was Lance Corporal Wilfrid Jefferson, 18th (Queen Mary's Own) Hussars, who was in the retreat from Mons, and was killed at La Bassee on October 28th, 1914, in his nineteenth year.

Mrs Jefferson, the mother, of 16 Valley Mount, has now nearly twelve months later, suffered a second loss in the death in action of her elder son, Gunner John Defty. He was Mrs Jefferson's eldest son by her first marriage, and joined the Army a fortnight after his half-brother's death, with the firm resolve to avenge his brother. He volunteered for trench mortar duty, and died in the performance of this work.

SDGW

18th (Queen Mary's Own Royal) Hussars, Household Cavalry

8204 Lance Corporal Wilfred Jefferson

Born : Sunderland

Enlisted : Leeds

Residence : Harrogate

Died : 28th October 1914

KIA  :  France and Flanders