Ernest Filmur BAILEY

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 Cemetery & Crematorium
CE 5 3577
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Baulkham Hills William Thompson Masonic School War Memorial, Sydney United Grand Lodge Honour Roll
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World War 1 Service

24 Aug 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 175, 1st Field Ambulance, Sydney, NSW
20 Oct 1914: Involvement Private, 175, 1st Field Ambulance, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: ''
20 Oct 1914: Embarked Private, 175, 1st Field Ambulance, HMAT Euripides, Sydney

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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.

 

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