Herbert Phillip Jeffries

A Deck Hand with Steam Trawler Newhaven (Lowestoft), Herbert died on 15th of January 1940 aged 33. 

Herbert was born at Lowestoft on 9 June 1906, a son of Herbert and Lucy Agnes Jeffries. He was baptised at Saint Peter’s Church, Kirkley, on 4 June 1909 and his family lived at 1 Short Street, and this was still their home in 1921, when Herbert worked as an errand boy for Coleman and Brown, Chemists, at 216 London Road.  

In 1930 Herbert married Edith Mary Gayfer: this was registered in the Mutford district. By 1939 they were living at 6 Short Street. Later Edith married William Leonard.

In 1940 Herbert worked as a deck hand on the trawler Newhaven. The Newhaven was presumed to have been lost, around 18 miles south south-east of Lowestoft, due to a mine explosion.