Redan Sydney Jeffries

A Cook with Fishing Vessel Vanguard (Lowestoft), Redan died on 24th of October 1917 at the age of 14. 

Redan was born at Lowestoft in 1903, a son of Redan Welton and Edith Maud Jeffries. In 1911 his family lived at 97 Bevan Street and later at 26 Haward Street, Lowestoft. 

On the morning of 24 October 1917 the trawler Vanguard (LT 722) sailed from Lowestoft and went north apparently to fish off Happisburgh. The trawler was never seen again and it was assumed the trawler was lost through enemy action.