BAILEY, Francis Sidney
| Service Number: | 718 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 November 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 35th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Hinton, New South Wales.Australia, 31 October 1893 |
| Home Town: | Morpeth, Maitland Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Morpeth, New South Wales.Australia, 9 May 1967, aged 73 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 3-90. 69. |
| Memorials: | Morpeth Public School Honor Roll, Morpeth War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 15 Nov 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 718, 35th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 1 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 718, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 1 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 718, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney | |
| 26 Dec 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 718, 35th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD (wounding, Messines) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
56 years ago today, on the 10th May 1967, Corporal Francis Sidney Bailey, 35th Battalion (Lewis Machine Gun Section, Reg No-718), labourer from Princess Street, Morpeth, New South Wales and High Street, Morpeth, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 73. CATHOLIC 3-90. 69.
Born at Hinton, New South Wales on the 31st October 1893 to Thomas Benjamin and Sophia Louise Bailey of High Street, Morpeth, New South Wales; husband of Alice Caroline Bailey nee Schroder (married 1939, Wickham, N.S.W., died 1.4.1983, age 76, sleeping here), Francis enlisted on the 25th November 1915 at West Maitland, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A24 Benalla on the 1st May 1916.
Wounded in action - 7.6.1917 (GSW right patella (kneecap), shell shock, Battle of Messines).
Invalided to England 15.6.1917.
Francis was invalided home on the 21st November 1917, being discharged medically unfit on the 26th December 1917.
Mr. Bailey’s name has been inscribed on the Hinton Public School Memorial Gates, Morpeth Soldiers' Memorial, Morpeth Public School Honor Roll and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at Francis’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Officially commemorated – https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html...
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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