In Memory Of

BAILEY, ROYAL HUBERT SILAS

Service Details
Age:
 30
Date of Birth:
 1887-01-12
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
Unit:
 1st R.M. Bn. R.N. Div.
Regiment:
 Royal Marine Light Infantry
Former Regiment:
 formerly North Somerset Yeomanry
Date of Death:
 1918-01-05
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Pier and Face 1 A.
Cemetery:
 THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Localitly:
 Somme
Country:
 France
Additional Information
Son of George H. and Mary Bailey. Husband of Ethel Bailey, of 28, St. Michael's Park, Bristol. Formerly 1838 & 165791 Corporal Roy Bailey, North Somerset Yeomanry. Served with Umvoti Mounted Rifles in German South West Africa; ex-No.21 Officer Cadet Bn. ; Commissioned Temporary 2nd Lieutenant RM 27/6/17 ; Draft for BEF 18/12/17, joined 1st RM Bn. 1/1/18-5/1/18 DD. 1st RM Bn. War Diary records 3/1/18:- "Temporary 2nd Lieutenant Bailey to 2/RMLI to be attached." & 5/1/18:- "Temporary 2nd Lieutenant Bailey missing, killed." & 19/1/18 near Villers Plouich:- "Body of Temporary 2nd Lieutenant Bailey recovered & interred at 57c.R.15.c.85.92. (or 50.0774, 3.1563)" ; b.12/1/1887 ; Married Ethel Jones 5/12/1915.