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Pte. James Frederick Gaffing
British Army 2nd Battalion. A Company Durham Light Infantry
from:Jarrow
(d.9th Aug 1915)
James Frederick Gaffing aged 30, died on 9 August 1915.
He was born in 1884 in Jarrow, son of the late Mary Ann Green (nee Gaffing)
and husband of Elizabeth Jane Gaffing (nee Callighan)of 19 Milton Street, Jarrow.
On the 1911 England and Wales BMD census he is listed as aged 25, married and his occupation was Labourer in a Copper Tube factory. He was born in Jarrow, Durham.
His wife, Elizabeth Jane, was aged 21 and also born in Jarrow, Durham. Both residing at 17 Milton Street, Jarrow on Tyne.
James is remembered in Ypres at the Menin Gate Memorial