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Remembered With Honour:  Private,
Silas Bailey
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| Service Number |
18634 |
| Regiment |
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry "B" Company, 6th Battalion |
| Date Died |
12/08/1915 |
| Age |
45 |
| Died How? |
Killed In Action |
| Died Where? |
Belgium |
| Known Grave? |
Yes |
| UK Memorial |
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| Memorial Abroad |
YPRES RESERVOIR CEMETERY, V. AA. 1. |
| Additional
Information |
In Plot V, Row AA, are the graves of 16 officers and men of the 6th Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, who were billeted in the vaults of the cathedral and killed on 12 August 1915 by shelling from the "Ypres Express" firing from Houthulst Forest. Son of William and Eliza Bailey, of Homerton, London; husband of Wilhelmina Bailey, of 321, Capworth St, Leyton, London. |
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