• Born: Abt 1884, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland
• Marriage (1): Isabella Malcolm GORDON on 21 July 1915 in prob Ayrshire, Scotland ^{1 2}
• Died: 4 September 1918, Buissy, Pas de Calais, France about age 34
• Buried: 1918, Buissy, Pas de Calais, France

   Other names for James were James JAFFREY, James JEFFREY and James B. JEFFREY.

  General Notes

JAMES BINNING JEFFREY was the husband of Isabella Malcolm Gordon Jeffrey, of Beechwood Cottage, Armadale, West Lothian, Scotland and he was the son of John Maxwell Jeffrey and Marion Binning Jeffrey. James enlisted on the 2nd June 1916, and he had served in France for over 18 months. In April 1917 he was wounded by an enemy Gas shell but soon recovered. James was a native of Irvine, and he was trained in Irvine Academy and finished his training for a scholastic career in Glasgow Training College in 1912.

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Casualty Details
Name:       JEFFREY, JAMES BINNING
Initials:       J B
Nationality:       United Kingdom
Rank:       Sapper
Regiment/Service:       Royal Engineers
Unit Text:       416th Field Coy.
Age:       33
Date of Death:       04/09/1918
Service No:       461604
Additional information:       Son of John Maxwell Jeffrey and Marion Binning Jeffrey; husband of Isabella Malcolm Gordon Jeffrey, of Beech Cottage, Armadale, West Lothian. Born at Irvine, Ayrshire.
Casualty Type:       Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference:       IV. H. 34.
Cemetery:       QUEANT ROAD CEMETERY, BUISSY

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Cemetery Details
Cemetery:       QUEANT ROAD CEMETERY, BUISSY
Country:       France
Locality:       Pas de Calais
Visiting Information:       Wheelchair access to this site is possible, but may be by alternative entrance. For further information regarding wheelchair access, please contact our Enquiries Section on 01628 507200.
Location Information:       Buissy is a village about 2 kilometres south of the main Arras to Cambrai road (D939) and about 25 kilometres from Arras. Queant Road Cemetery is situated on the north side of the D14 road that leads from the village towards Queant, about 3 kilometres from Buissy.
Historical Information:       Buissy was reached by the Third Army on 2 September 1918, after the storming of the Drocourt-Queant line, and it was evacuated by the Germans on the following day. Queant Cemetery was made by the 2nd and 57th Casualty Clearing Stations in October and November 1918. It then consisted of 71 graves (now Plot I, Rows A and B), but was greatly enlarged after the Armistice when 2200 graves were brought in from the battlefields of 1917-1918 between Arras and Bapaume, and from the following smaller burial grounds in the area:- BARALLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY BRITISH EXTENSION, which was made in September 1918, contained the graves of 25 soldiers from the United Kingdom; and the GERMAN EXTENSION, from which two graves were brought. CAGNICOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY, contained the grave of one soldier from the United Kingdom who fell in September 1918. LAGNICOURT (6th JAEGER REGIMENT) GERMAN CEMETERY, East of the village, contained 137 German graves and one British. NOREUIL BRITISH CEMETERIES No.1 and No.2. These were close together, about 400 metres North of Noreuil village. They were made in April-August 1917, and they contained the graves of 50 soldiers from Australia and 16 from the United Kingdom (some of these were re-buried in H.A.C. Cemetery, Ecoust-St. Mein). NOREUIL GERMAN CEMETERY No.1, next to Noreuil Australian Cemetery, contained 78 German graves and ten British. PRONVILLE GERMAN CEMETERY "near the Cave", on the Western outskirts of Pronville, contained 17 British graves. PRONVILLE GERMAN CEMETERY No.4, South of Pronville on the road to Beaumetz, contained 83 German and 83 British graves (52 of the British being those of soldiers of the Black Watch). PROVILLE CHURCHYARD, contained two British graves. There are now 2,377 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 1,441 of the burials are unidentified, but there are special memorials to 56 casualties known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials commemorate 26 casualties buried in German cemeteries in the neighbourhood, whose graves could not be found on concentration. The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
No. of Identified Casualties:       939

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British Army WWI Service Records, 1914 –1920
about James Binning Jeffrey
Name:       James Binning Jeffrey
Age:       30
Birth Year:       abt 1885
Residence :       Meadowhead, Bridgend Bathgate
Regiment Name:       RE Sch A
Regiment Number:       177126
Document Year:       1915
Number of Images:       17

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  Burial Notes

Queant Road Cemetery

  Recorded Events in His Life

• He appeared on the 1891 Census of Scotland on 5 April 1891 in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland.
  

John Jeffrey       Head   40   Irvine, Ayrshire        Joiner
Marion Jeffrey     Wife   34   Hamilton, Lanarkshire  
John Jeffrey       Son    15   Irvine, Ayrshire        Scholar & Clerk
Janet Jeffrey      Dau    13   Irvine, Ayrshire
Isabella Jeffrey   Dau    11   Irvine, Ayrshire        Scholar
Marion Jeffrey     Dau     8   Irvine, Ayrshire        Scholar
James Jeffrey      Son     6   Irvine, Ayrshire        Scholar
Martha Jeffrey     Dau     2   Irvine, Ayrshire

• He worked as an apprentice joiner on 31 March 1901 in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland.

• He appeared on the 1901 Census of Scotland on 31 March 1901 in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland.
  

John Jeffrey       Head       50   Irvine, Ayrshire   Joiner
Marron Jeffrey     Wife       44   Hamilton           Dressmaker
Janet Jeffrey      Daughter   23   Irvine, Ayrshire
Isabella Jeffrey   Daughter   21   Irvine, Ayrshire   Dressmaker
James Jeffrey      Son        16   Irvine, Ayrshire   Apprentice Joiner
Martha Jeffrey     Daughter   12   Irvine, Ayrshire   Scholar
Nathan Jeffrey     Boarder    54   Irvine, Ayrshire   Grocer
Alex Boyle         Visitor    14   Greenock           Draughtsman Apprentice

• He had a residence on 11 December 1915 in Meadowhead, Bridgend Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland. ¹

• He worked as a woodworking instructor (joiner) on 11 December 1915 in Meadowhead, Bridgend Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland. ¹

• He had a residence in 1917 in Armadale, West Lothian, Scotland.

James married Isabella Malcolm GORDON, daughter of John GORDON and Isabella UNK, on 21 July 1915 in prob Ayrshire, Scotland.^{1 2} (Isabella Malcolm GORDON was born about 1890 in Plains, Lanarkshire, Scotland ³.)