serviceyears branch commands death_date allegiance awards battles birth_date rank article_title name
1897 - 1938 23px british army 2nd guards brigade 19th division 30th division light division london district bn 43rd -lrb- wessex -rrb- division southern command , india grenadier guards 58th brigade 57th brigade 1st 19 december 1960 -lrb- aged 82 -rrb- united kingdom united kingdom knight commander of the royal victorian order companion of the order commander of st michael and st george of the order of the bath knight second boer war world war i 8 march 1878 general george -rrb-
 jeffreys , 1st baron jeffreys -lrb- second creation the lord jeffreys
george jeffreys , 1st baron jeffreys -lrb- second creation article_title_10:-rrb-

general george darell jeffreys , 1st baron jeffreys -lrb- 8 march 1878 -- 19 december 1960 -rrb- , was a british military commander and conservative member of parliament .
jeffreys attended eton and sandhurst before being commissioned into the grenadier guards .
he saw action in africa and in the boer war as a young officer , and went to france with his battalion at the start of the first world war .
he served on the western front throughout the war , rising to command the 2nd grenadier guards , then a series of infantry brigades , before being promoted to command 19th -lrb- western -rrb- division from september 1917 until the end of the war .
following the armistice , he commanded a division in the forces occupying germany , and then held various commands until he retired from the army in 1938 .
from 1925 onwards he served as a magistrate and county councillor in hampshire , and after retirement increased his involvement with local administration .
he chaired a series of local bodies , and in 1941 was elected to the house of commons for the constituency of petersfield .
he retired from parliament at the 1951 election , and was created a peer the following year , as baron jeffreys .
he continued to sit in the house of lords until his death in 1960 .
