Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookury, Wilts., Farm Labourer, by his wife, Annie, dau. of the late Matthew Clark, of Malmesbury; _b._ Brokenborough, near Malmesbury, co. Wilts., 2 Aug. 1890; educ. Malmesbury National School; enlisted 31 July, 1912, and was killed in the fighting round Ypres, Oct. 1914; _unm._ [Illustration: =Arthur Edward Bailey.=] =BAILEY, FREDERICK JOSEPH=, Acting Sergt.-Major, No. 4640, 1/5th Battn. The Royal Scots (T.F.); killed in action at the Dardanelles, 12 May, 1915. =BAILEY, GEORGE HENRY=, Leading Seaman, 220337, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. His brother, Wallace J. Bailey, was lost in the Cressy. =BAILEY, JOHN JAMES=, Private, No. 2280, 7th Battn. Durham L.I. (T.F.), only _s._ of the late (--) Bailey; b. Sunderland, co. Durham, ... Aug. 1887, and was employed at Foster's Forge, Sunderland; joined the 7th (Territorial) Battn. of the Durham L.I., and trained at Gateshead; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action "somewhere" in France, 15 May, 1915. He _m._ at Sunderland, 24 Aug. 1912, Elizabeth Jane (who died 16 June, 1914), dau. of William Chambers Farley, of Sunderland, Machine Driller, and had an only child, Catherine (15, Victoria Street, Southwick, Sunderland), _b._ 9 Jan. 1913. [Illustration: =John James Bailey.=] =BAILEY, THOMAS DISMORE=, Private, No. 3189, B Coy., 1/5th Battn. Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regt., yr. _s._ of Samuel Bailey, Coachman to Mr. J. H. Sykes, of Bryancliffe, Edgerton, Huddersfield, by his wife, Selina, dau. of Thomas Dismore; _b._ Marsh, Huddersfield, 29 Dec. 1895; was a cutter's apprentice at Messrs. Bairstow, Sons & Co., Ltd., Clothiers, but on the outbreak of war joined the Army as a Stretcher-bearer and First Aid Ambulance man, 6 Oct. 1914, and was killed while attending to the wounded at Fleurbaix at 12.15 p.m., 14 June, 1915; buried at La Croix Marchal; _unm._ Writing to his parents his Commanding Officer, Capt. J. E. Eastwood, said: "We had just had one man badly wounded, and your son as a stretcher-bearer was attending to him, when I heard that we had another man wounded higher up the trenches, so your son set off to attend to him, and while doing so was shot dead on the spot." And Lieut. A. L. McCully, of the R.A.M.C., wrote: "As you know, I have not been very long in charge of the Ambulance Section, but I have heard nothing but praise of your son from Sergt. Flood and his late comrades. He was always willing to do his share of whatever was in hand, and the fact of his at once going out to a dangerous place to help a wounded man shows that he had the very highest conception of what his duty was." He was a member of the choir at Holy Trinity, Huddersfield. [Illustration: =Thomas Dismore Bailey.=] =BAILEY, WALLACE JAMES=, Seaman, R.N.R., 2467A, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. His brother, George Henry, was lost in the Pathfinder. =BAILEY, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7729), S.S. 103118, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BAILEY, WILLIAM=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., B. 576), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BAILEY, WILLIAM HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9459), S.S. 106853, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BAILLIE, DOUGLAS ANDERSON=, Leading Seaman, 230740, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BAILLIE, SIR GAWAINE GEORGE STUART=, 5th Bart., of Polkemmet, Lieut., 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys), elder _s._ of the late Sir Robert Baillie, 4th Bart. (who commanded the Australian Squadron of the King's Colonials), by his wife, Isabel (Polkemmet, Whitburn, Linlithgow), dau. of the late David Elliot Wilkie, of Ratho Byres, Midlothian; _b._ Victoria, Australia, 29 May, 1893; educ. St. David's, Rufalt, Eton and Sandhurst; gazetted to the 2nd Dragoons, 4 Sept. 1912, being stationed at York till the war broke out. He went to France with the Expeditionary Force Aug. 14; was promoted Lieut., and was wounded in the hand in Aug., but insisted on returning to the firing line, although unable to use it. He was killed in action at Rebais on 7 Sept. 1914, when the onward rush of the Germans was stopped at the Marne. In the words of a brother officer: "Unable to draw any weapon himself, he died charging the enemy like the gallant English gentleman he was." His body was brought home and buried in the family burial ground: _unm._ Numerous letters were received from his brother officers and the men of the regt. testifying to his gallantry and to the high esteem and popularity in which he was held by the whole regt. =BAILLIE, IAN HENRY=, Capt., 4th Battn. Cameron Highlanders (T.F.), 3rd _s._ of the late Lieut.-Gen. Duncan Baillie, formerly of the Royal Horse Guards, by his wife, Anna Glentworth (Lochloy, Nairn, N.B.), dau. of the Rev. Gustavus Burnaby, of Somerby Hall, Leicestershire; _b._ Househill, co. Nairn, 3 Sept. 1870; educ. Wellington College; was for some time a Lieut. in 1st Lanark Rifle Volunteers, and on the outbreak of war was gazetted Capt. to the 4th Battn. of the Cameron Highlanders, 20 Nov. 1914. He was wounded at Festubert, 18 May, 1915, and _d._ in hospital at Rouen four days later; _unm._ An elder brother, Capt. Alan Baillie, Seaforth Highlanders, was killed at Atbara in 1898, and another brother, Major Hugh Baillie, D.S.O., of the Seaforth Highlanders, was wounded in the early part of the war, and has now (1916) a staff appointment abroad. A third brother, Major Duncan Baillie, 2nd Lovat Scouts, is serving abroad with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force. [Illustration: =Ian Henry Baillie.=] =BAILWARD, THEODORE=, Lieut., 26th King George's Own Native L.I., 3rd _s._ of Thomas Henry Methuen Bailward, of Horsington Manor, co. Somerset, B.A. Oxford, J.P., C.C., by his wife, Margaret Eliza, dau. of Henry Hobhouse, of Hadspen House, Castle Cary, J.P.; _b._ Horsington Manor, 9 March, 1888; educ. Summerfields, near Oxford, Rugby and Sandhurst; received commission in Somerset L.I., then quartered at Poona, 1907. The following year he passed into the Indian Army, joining the 26th Native Cavalry at Bangalore, and in 1913 was appointed A.D.C. to the Governor of Madras (Lord Pentland), and became Master of the Ootacamund Hounds, which office he held until the outbreak of war, when he rejoined his regt. He was attached to the 7th Lancers, and with them joined the Indian Expeditionary Force in the Persian Gulf in March, and was killed, with two other officers and some men, at Imanzadeh Ali Ibuhussin, 18 miles due east of Awaz, when on a reconnaissance, 29 April, 1915. He was buried there; _unm._ [Illustration: =Theodore Bailward.=] =BAINBRIDGE, THOMAS LINDSAY=, Lieut., 5th Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, attd. Northumbrian Signal Coy. R.E., 3rd _s._ of the late Thomas Hudson Bainbridge, of Eshott Hall, co. Northumberland; _b._ Holmwood, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 24 Apri |