BAILEY, Ernest Filmur
| Service Number: | 175 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 24 August 1914, Sydney, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Field Ambulance |
| Born: | East Maitland, NSW, 1883 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Commercial Traveller |
| Died: | Illness (Tuberculosis), At home, Katoomba, NSW, 12 September 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
Rookwood Cemeteries & Crematorium, New South Wales CE 5 3577 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Baulkham Hills William Thompson Masonic School War Memorial, Sydney United Grand Lodge Honour Roll |
Biography contributed by Faithe Jones
Husband of Alice E. BAILEY, 63 Darlinghurst Road, Sydney, NSW
Member of the Commercial Travellers 224 Lodge
Mr. Ernest Bailey, relieving night-officer on the Orange railway staff, received an urgent wire yesterday to say that his brother, Pte. J. Bailey, was in a serious condition at Katoomba. Pte. Bailey, who is a well known western spirit traveller, fought through the Gallipoli campaign, but was invalided home from Egypt through having contracted lung trouble. It is feared that his recovery is hopeless.
Private Ernest Filmer Bailey, a returned invalided soldier from Egypt, died on Tuesday night at his residence in Cascade Street. Private Bailey, who was a member of the Commercial Travellers Association, leaves a widow but no children. The body was sent to Rookwood for interment, the funeral arrangements being efficiently carried out by Messrs. Wood, Coffill & Co., Ltd., under the supervision of Mr. T. E. Hart. The deceased was only 33 when the knock came.