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BAILEY George Haddon 2/Lt

Catalogue reference: SKR/DAT/IP/20356

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This record is about the BAILEY George Haddon 2/Lt dating from 2000-2024.

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Reference

SKR/DAT/IP/20356

Title

BAILEY George Haddon 2/Lt

Date

2000-2024

Description

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Surname: BAILEY;

Forename(s): George Haddon;

Initials: GH;

Rank: 2/Lt;

Resided in: Streatham;

Previous Number: 1428;

Previous Battalion: 9 of;

Previous Regiment: London Regt;

MGC Branch: Infantry;

MGC Unit: 145 Coy;

How killed: DOW;

Where: France;

When killed: 06-Apr-1917;

Other Data: War Illustrated, Vol IX, p 3220 for photograph
enlisted 29/2/1912 aged 17, occ - Clerk.
Cas Form: embarked for France 4/11/1914 - to UK 6/1/1915 frost bitten feet - to 8 GH - to UK per HT Carisbrook Castle
disch to Commsn 16/06/1915 9 R W Surrey Regt.
Cas Form: 2/Lt Bailey 145 Coy MGC
30/08/1916 to join BEF. To Base Depot Etaples. Posted 145 Coy 19/09/1916. 19/11/1916 to Divisional Sch - cancelled. Mentioned war diary 8/1/1917
6/4/1917 suffered shell wounds back and chest - DOW same day. (wounding & death reported in war diary)
Will: all effects to father Rev Gero Thos Bailey Baptist Minister - "I desire that some memento should be sent to Margaret Roy Dott 98 Buckingham Rd, Brighton and that my pocket case and contents should be returned to her"
NOK: Geo Thos Bailey (F) aged 60, Kate Annie Bailey (M) aged 61, sister Gladys Bailey (25), Grace Bailey (14)
War Diary 145 Coy - joined 19/9/1916;

Other Notes: BAILEY, Second Lieutenant, GEORGE, 145th Coy. Machine Gun Corps (Inf). 6th April 1917. Age 22. Son of George Thomas and Kate Annie Bailey, of The Beeches, Aultone Way, Sutton, Surrey. Born at Leyton, London. E. 90. Villers-Faucon Communal Cemetery - Somme, France.;

Related National Archives files: WO339/4086:;

END OF RECORD.

Held by
Vickers MG Collection & Research Association
Language

English

Creator(s)
Graham Sacker
Physical description

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