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Lance Corporal George Wesley Bailey

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PERSONAL INFORMATION

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
Rank detail
  1. Lance Corporal (Army).
  2. Private (Army). 1916-01-21 ?
  3. 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 this.
CWGC ID: 618018
LAC ID: 19686
Attestation record(s): image 1, image 2
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