Jack Yaffin

Private Jack Yaffin was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1895, in Leeds, the son of Russian-born parents Phillip, a tailor by trade, and Esther Yaffin (née Goldberg). At the time of the 1911 Census, the younger Yaffin was assisting while living with his family at 5 Rursell Road, Rockingham Street.
Yaffin died on 2 March 1917, on the Western Front, while serving with the 18th (Service) Battalion (2nd Bradford), The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment).
He is buried in Gommecourt British Cemetery No. 2, Hebuterne.
==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Yaffin, J, cwgc.org. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
Category:1895 births
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of Jewish descent
Category:British people of Russian descent
Category:Buried in France
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