Lance Corporal George Wesley Bailey
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name:
Bailey,
George Wesley
Date of birth: 1892-10-13
Place of birth: Shrigney Ontario Canada
Next of kin: Jessie Bailey, mother,R.R.#4, Dundalk,Ontario, Canada.
Marital status: single
Occupation (attested): Butcher
Occupation (normalized): Butcher, General
Address:
R.R.#4, Dundalk,Ontario, Canada.
Religion: Methodist
Date of death:
1917-04-09
Cause of death:
Killed in action
Buried:
Bois-Carre British Cemetery, V. A. 19.
MILITARY INFORMATION
Regimental number: 669012
Highest Rank:
Lance Corporal
(Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry)
Rank detail
- Lance Corporal (Army).
- Private (Army). 1916-01-21 ?
- Lance Corporal, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, Infantry (Army). 1917-01-26 to 1917-04-09
Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: no
Battle wounded/killed: Vimy Ridge (La Folie Farm)
RESEARCH INFORMATION
CVWM ID: No CVWM ID in our database, but try
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CWGC ID: 618018
LAC ID:
19686
Service file: B0344-S054
Uploader's Notes:
Original overseas unit: 166th Canadian Infantry Battalion. Joined the P.P.C.L.I. in the field January 26, 1917. Killed at Vimy Ridge.
Son of George and Jessie Bailey, of Melancthon, Ontario.
Uploader's Research notes: Details of death from Ancestry.com which includes a digitized image of the casualty form from the "Canada, War Graves Registers (Circumstances of Casualty), 1914-1948" database [Private Army Canadian Infantry 166th Battalion Lance-Corporal Army Canadian Infantry 166th Battalion Lance-Corporal Army Canadian Infantry Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry ]
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Date added: 2004-09-04
Last modified: 2014-01-20