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Jeffrey Appleyard

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Jeffrey's Service record and medals from both World Wars

Military Information

  • Date of enlistment: February 1917
  • Place of enlistment:
  • Service no: 33029, 38755 & 2811203
  • Rank: Sergeant
  • Service Occupation:
  • Awards:
  • Regiment/Service: Royal Scots Fusiliers & Seaforth Highlanders
  • Unit/Ship: 1st Battalion

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 07.12.1898
  • Place of Birth: 91 Cowgate, Dundee
  • Address:
  • Occupation: Barr & Stroud & Singer Sewing Machine Co, Glasgow
  • Mother:

    Agnes Inglis

  • Father:

    Joseph Appleyard 1871-1954

  • Siblings:

    Josephine 1894-1986, Jane Crighton born, 1896 & Marion Brown born 1897

  • Spouse:

    May Calvert 1909-1980

  • Children:

    Joseph-born 1931, Jane-born 1932, Jeffrey-born 1937, William 1946-2009, James & May (twins) born 1946.

  • Age at Death: 50
  • Date of Death: 07.03.1949
  • Place of Death: Glasgow
  • Burial Country: Scotland
  • Cemetery: Riddrie Cemetery

More about Jeffrey Appleyard

Jeffrey worked at the Caledon Shipyard, Dundee prior to being conscripted in 1917 into an unknown regiment, Regimental Number 33029, before being transferred to the 10th Works Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers with the Regimental Number 38755, he was also to serve within various battalions of the Labour Corps . Following the end of the Great War he served with 45th/46th Battalion Royal Fusiliers(London Regiment) in Russia from May-December 1919. he then transferred to the 1st Battalion Seaforth Highlanders Reg No 2811203 in 1920 and served with them until he was medically discharged 15th April 1942. Jeffrey was married in 1930 and died in Glasgow, 07.03.1949. He served in the army for over 25 years and 2 World Wars.

Information and photo’s kindly supplied by his son Jeffrey

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