Major John Noble Jephson

Date published: 26/11/1915
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 29/08/1915
Age at death: 50
Cemetery: East Mudros Military Cemetery, Lemnos, Greece
Plot: II. J. 178.
Information: Major John Noble Jephson, who died August 29th, 1915, of wounds received in action in Gallipoli, was the second son of the late Deputy Inspector-General Win. Holmes Jephson, M.D. and nephew of the late Robert Holmes Jephson, Lansdowne Road, Dublin, and was born at Bangalore in 1864. He was gazetted from Sandhurst to the Manchester Regiment in 1885, joining the 5th Bengal Infantry in 1889, He retired from the Indian Army in 1905, through malaria. On the outbreak of the war he at once offered his services and was appointed 2nd in command of the 6th Batt. Royal Munster Fusiliers. He took part in the recent landing of that regiment in Suvla Bay, and the subsequent fighting from the 6th to the 29th of August, on which date he fell, shot through the head, while leading his men.