Information: - Clarence Smith Jeffries VC ( 26 October 1894 -- 12 October 1917 ) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross , the highest decoration for gallantry '' in the face of the enemy '' that can be awarded to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces . He was posthumously decorated with the Victoria Cross following his actions in the First Battle of Passchendaele during the First World War , in which he led several parties of men in an attack that eventuated in the capture of six machine guns and sixty - five prisoners , before being killed himself by machine gun fire . Born in a suburb of Newcastle , New South Wales , Jeffries was employed as a surveyor at a mining company where his father served as general manager following his completion of school . Joining a militia battalion in 1912 , he was commissioned as a second lieutenant upon the outbreak of war and tasked with the instruction of volunteers for the newly raised Australian Imperial Force . Transferring into the Australian Imperial Force himself in 1916 , Jeffries embarked with his battalion for service on the Western Front . Wounded at Messines , he was promoted to captain before being killed fourteen days short of his twenty - third birthday . - The Battle of Poelcappelle was fought in Flanders on 9 October 1917 by the British and German armies, during the First World War and marked the end of the string of highly successful British attacks in late September and early October 1917, during the Third Battle of Ypres. Only the supporting attack in the north achieved a substantial advance. On the main front the German defences withstood the limited amount of artillery fire managed by the British after the attack of 4 October. The ground along the main ridges had been severely damaged by shelling and rapidly deteriorated in the rains, which began again on 3 October, turning some areas into a swamp. - The First Battle of Passchendaele took place on 12 October 1917, in the Ypres Salient of the Western Front, west of Passchendaele village. The attack was part of the Third Battle of Ypres in the First World War. The British had planned to capture the ridges south and east of the city of Ypres as part of a strategy decided by the Allies at conferences in November 1916 and May 1917. Passchendaele lay on the last ridge east of Ypres, from a railway junction at Roulers, which was an important part of the German 4th Army supply system. After a dry spell in September, rains began on 3 October and by the Battle of Poelcappelle on 9 October, much of the British field artillery opposite Passchendaele was out of action due to the effects of rain, mud and German artillery-fire. The remaining guns were either left in old positions and fired at the limit of their range or were operated from any flat ground near wooden roadways or from platforms, many of which were unstable, when it was found impossible to move them forward to new positions before the attack began. - The Ypres Salient is the area around Ypres in Belgium which was the scene of some of the biggest battles in World War I. What is the relationship between 'clarence jeffries' and 'world war i'?
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