John Alfred Bailey

Remembered with Honour in the Rocquigny-Equancourt Road, British Cemetery, Mamanc, FranceBritish War Medal and Allied Victory Medal.

John (Alfred) Bailey.

Personal Details:

Born in Maesbury, Oswestry, Shropshire on 16th October 1892.

Second son of Edmund and Mary Ellen Bailey of Yew Tree House, Maesbury, Oswestry, Shropshire.

The 1911 Census shows John as a railway clerk, and the London and North-Western Railway Roll of Honour confirms that he worked at Malpas station.

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Military Details:

Regiment:           Hood Battalion, Royal Navy Division, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.

Rank:                 Able Seaman.

Serial Number:   R/3713

John joined the Army Reserve in November 1915 and was transferred to the RNVR in June 1917.

He was transferred to the Howe Battalion, RND, British Expeditionary Force on 13th October 1917 and was wounded on 28th December 1917.

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Record of Death:

John died from a shell wound to the head at the 48th Casualty Clearing Station at Bray in France on 5th January 1918. Aged 25.

Buried in Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery, Manancourt, Somme, France. IX.B.20.

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Medals and Awards:

John was awarded the Campaign Medals (British War Medal and Allied Victory Medal)

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Further Information:

The 1911 Census records John as a railway clerk, and the London and North-Western Railway Roll of Honour confirms that he worked at Malpas.

The March 1918 Malpas Deanery magazine also confirms he worked at Malpas station.

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Report in the Liverpool Daily Post 17th January 1918 regarding the death of John Alfred Bailey

“WELSH ROLL OF HONOUR.

WELSH BORDER CASUALTIES.

Private John Alfred Bailey, Maesbury, near Oswestry, who before the war was employed by the London and North-Western Railway Company, has died in hospital from shell wounds.”