Service Details
Name:
 BAYLY
Given Name:
 CHARLES GEORGE GORDON
Initials:
 C G G
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Royal Flying Corps
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Unit:
 5th Sqdn.
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Unit 2:
 and 56th Field Coy. Royal Engineers
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Date of Death:
 1914-08-22
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Date of Birth:
 1891-05-30
Age:
 23
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, 2nd Lt Vincent WATERFALL and Lt Charles George Gordon BAYLY, 5 Sqn. Took off at 10:16 and at around 10:50 the pair was over the Enghien-Soignies area. Their Avro was hit by enemy ground fire and crashed by the side of the Ath-Enghien road, both occupants being killed. They were the first allied airmen to be shot down and killed in Belgium.
Additional
Information:
Son of Brackenbury Bayly, M.I.E.E. (Woolwich) and Beatrice Mary Jessie Bayly, of Falmouth, Cornwall. (One of the first Royal Flying Corps battle casualties of the war). Native of Cape Town, South Africa.
Commemoration
Country:
 Belgium
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Locality:
 Tournai, Hainaut
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Cemetery:
 TOURNAI COMMUNAL CEMETERY ALLIED EXTENSION
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Grave Reference:
 III. G. 3.

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