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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 647

(x) Five: Private J. A. Hefferon, Essex Regiment, late Army Service Corps and King's Royal Rifle Corps, who served under an alias during the Great War

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing's Nek (6211 Pte J. Andrews, 3-K.R.R.C.); King's South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (6211 Pte. J. Andrews, 3-K.R.R.C.); 1914-15 Star (SS-6942 Pte. J. Hefferon. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (SS-6942 Pte. J. Hefferon, A.S.C.), mounted as worn, polished, nearly very fine and somewhat unusual (5)

John Andrew Hefferon was born on 11 June 1872 at Finsbury, London, the son of Andrew and Eliza Hefferon. He served in South Africa with the 2nd Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, as Rifleman John Andrews, later transferring to the 3rd and 4th Battalions and Section 'D' of the Army Reserve from 12 February 1903 - 11 February 1907. During the Great War he joined the Army Service Corps and served in France from 2 April 1915 as Private John Hefferon. At the end of hostilities he joined the 19th Garrison Battalion, Essex Regiment from 23 July 1919 - 20 January 1921 and continued to serve in France, with an attachment as Lance-Corporal in the Military Foot Police. Hefferon married Mary Garner at Islington in 1902 and died at the Royal Hospital Chelsea Infirmary, Leatherhead on 30 January 1951.

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