Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Booke, No. 10456, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, 3rd _s._ of Frederick Henry Baxter, of 19, Portland Road, Colchester, Bootmaker in Government workshop, by his wife, Georgina, dau. of William Calversbert, of Colchester, Essex; _b._ Colchester, 17 Sept. 1890; educ. National School there; enlisted 4 Jan. 1909; served five years in India, and after the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, came home with his regt. and went to France in Dec. He was invalided home in Jan. 1915, with frozen feet, but returned to duty in July, and was killed in action in the attack on Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; _unm._ =BAYFIELD, ALFRED=, Stoker, P.O. 286348, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =BAYLEY, ALBERT EDWARD=, A.B., S.S. 3556, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BAYLEY, GEORGE BAIRD=, 2nd Lieut., King's Own Scottish Borderers, only _s._ of Isaac Fenton Bayley, of The Halls, Dunbar, East Lothian, by his wife, Grace Jane, dau. of Gideon Pott, of Dod, co. Roxburgh; _b._ Halls, 1 July, 1894; educ. Cheltenham College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 24 Jan. 1914; killed in action at Ypres, 24 Oct. 1914; _unm._ Lieut. Bayley was wounded at Le Cateau, being invalided home, and had only returned to the Front a short time before he fell. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir J. French's Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. [Illustration: =George Baird Bayley.=] =BAYLY, CHARLES GEORGE GORDON=, Lieut., R.E. and Royal Flying Corps, only _s._ of the late Brackenbury Bayly, of the Cape Civil Service, M.I.E.E., by his wife, Beatrice Mary Jesser, dau. of Col. William Jesser Coope, late 57th regt.; _b._ Rondebosch, Cape Colony, 30 May, 1891; educ. Diocesan College School, South Africa, St. Edmunds Preparatory School, Hindhead, St. Paul's School, Kensington, and Woolwich Academy, which he entered in Feb. 1910 as a Gentleman Cadet. He gained a scholarship for St. Paul's School and later won an exhibition from the school on passing into Woolwich. He passed out 7th into the R.E., and while at Chatham represented the R.E. at football and cricket, and took his aviator's certificate at Hendon (No. 441). On leaving Chatham he was gazetted to the 56th Field Co. R.E., and was stationed at Bulford Camp, Salisbury Plain. While here he won 2nd prize in the Royal Artillery point-to-point steeplechase. In May, 1914, he was appointed to take his course at the Central Flying School, Upavon, having applied for service in the Royal Flying Corps on leaving Chatham. Here he was interested in the study of wireless telegraphy from aeroplanes. On the outbreak of war he was gazetted to the 5th squadron Royal Flying Corps, and on leaving the school at Upavon was very highly reported on, his confidential report being "Very good indeed as pilot and his capabilities as an officer being above the average," and an added note that he was "A very keen officer with plenty of initiative." He was amongst the first to reach France, as he flew his machine from Dover to Amiens on 12 Aug. 1914, and thence to Maubeuge. He and his pilot were the first of the Military to be killed in action on the British side in the war. He was killed in action, 22 Aug. 1914, while on reconnaissance duty flying over the German lines, in the neighbourhood of Enghein Rassily, as observer with 2nd Lieut. Waterfall as pilot. They were shot down by German cannon-fire, and were hastily buried by the Germans in ten centimetres of soil, and later the owner of the park where they were buried exhumed the bodies and placed them in zinc coffins to await more decent burial. Lieut. Bayly was an officer full of promise and a keen sportsman. He represented his school at football and won second eleven colours at cricket; he boxed and shot for his house, winning the shooting cup for the house his last year at school. He represented Rosslyn Park at football on leaving school, and while at Woolwich won several prizes both in the athletic sports and swimming sports each year he was there. He was a good horseman and won his spurs at Woolwich. [Illustration: =Charles George G. Bayly.=] =BAYNES, JAMES=, Private, No. 10499, 13th Coy., 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd _s._ of Edward Clemminson Baynes, of 46, Parry Street, Barrow-in-Furness, Chauffeur, by his wife, Annie, dau. of George Dixon, of Blackburn, Bootmaker; _b._ Barrow-in-Furness, 9 July, 1894; educ. Oxford Street Schools there; enlisted Nov. 1913, and was killed in action at Zonnebeke, 21 Oct. 1914; _unm._ [Illustration: =James Baynes.=] =BEACH, ERNEST=, Private, No. 11301, 2nd Battn. East Yorkshire Regt., yst. _s._ of George Beach, of Lime Street, Hull, Tailor, by his wife, Ada, dau. of (--) Gregory; _b._ Hull, 9 Feb. 1895; educ. at the Charterhouse Lane Board School there. Prior to the outbreak of war he worked at the Hull City Saw Mills; enlisted 2 Sept. 1914, and had only been at the Front 11 days when he was wounded while on guard by bursting shrapnel, 28 Feb. 1915. He died in County Kendal Hospital, Westmoreland, 21 March following; _unm._ =BEADLE, JESSE AUGUSTUS=, Private, No. 1906, 2nd Battn. 1st Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 3rd _s._ of the late Jesse Delias Beadle, by his wife, Susannah (125, Broadway, Bexley Heath, Kent), dau. of John Nash, of Chadwell St. Mary's, Essex; _b._ Bexley, co. Kent, 20 Dec. 1890; educ. Bexley Heath. In Australia on the outbreak of war, he joined the Australian Imperial Force, left for the Dardanelles with the 5th Reinforcements, being employed as a bomb thrower, and was killed in action in the advance at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, 7 Aug. 1915; buried at sea. He _m._ in Sydney, New South Wales, March, 1914, Laura, dau. of (--) Casey, and had one dau., Ivy Alma, _b._ 10 Feb. 1915. [Illustration: =Jesse Augustus Beadle.=] =BEADON, BASIL HERBERT EDWARDS=, Capt. and Adjutant, 7th Battn. (Merioneth and Montgomery) Royal Welsh Fusiliers (T.F.), yr. _s._ of Col. Frederick Watson Beadon, of Longley Hall, Huddersfield, V.D., Land Agent for the Ramsden Estates, Huddersfield, formerly commanding the 5th and 7th West Riding Regt., by his wife, Elizabeth Eleonora, dau. of the late William Bolam, of High Cross House, Newcastle-on-Tyne; _b._ Longley Hall, co. York. 11 Jan. 1887; educ. Cheltenham College and Sedbergh, and took up his father's profession of Land Agent. He was brought up on the Ramsden Estate, then on the Duke of Buccleuch's Rugby estate, and finally on Lord Hothfield's Shipton property, whence he went to Mr. Naylor-Leyland's Kerry (Montgomeryshire) estate as sub-agent, and returned to the Ramsden estates as assistant to his father in 1912. He had joined the Warwickshire Yeomanry in 1908, and on leaving the county passed into the 7th Royal Welsh Fusiliers in July, 1910, of which he was appointed Lieut. 18 July, 1913, and Capt. and Adjutant, 21 Nov. 1914. On the declaration of war he volunteered with his battn. for foreign se |