John Alfred Bailey

Rocquigny-Equancourt Road, British Cemetery, Mamanc, France

John (Alfred) Bailey

Able Seaman No. R/3713 Hood Battalion, Royal Navy Division, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.  

Died of wounds in France 5 January 1918. Age 25.

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

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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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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.

John died from a shell wound to the head at the 48th Casualty Clearing Station at Bray in France.

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

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Report in the Liverpool Daily Post 17 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.”