Jeffreys, 33115 (DCM)

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The following text is a Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) transcription of a Border Regiment soldier of the First World War.

Name B. W. Jeffreys
Rank Corporal
Number 33115
Other details 2nd Border Regiment (Reading) (Italy)
Date published 25 February 1920
Citation At Fontanellette, on the 29th October 1918, he led his platoon with great dash against a machine-gun post which had held up the advance. On another occasion, when a hidden machine gun had suddenly opened fire from a flank, he stood up alone in full view of the enemy and silenced the machine gun by use of his rifle.
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