No.5339844, Lance Corporal, Reginald Charles BAILEY
Aged 27
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Reginald Bailey was born in 1917 (Newmarket Q4-1917 3B:587), son of Frederick Peter and Edna Hannah BAILEY (née SMITH ).
In the 1939 register, at the Beehive Beerhouse were his father Frederick P Bailey [9-12-1881] smallholder/innkeeper; mother Edna H [2-9-1879]; sisters Edna Mary (later MRS HURST) 25-6-1908 and Doris M (later Mrs MOTT) [5-8-1915] and brother Willian P [26-6-1913] assisting in business. There is one closed record. |
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The Veterans' Website Project and www.thewardrobe.org.uk/research/ gives this much: Reginald was a member of B Company, and commander of 6 Platoon, under the late Col. John Hill. "Photo SBYRW 41175..2nd Bn., Royal Berkshire Regiment - A sepia digital image of a group of soldiers of 'B' Company in India during the 2nd World War. L/Corporal 5120749 Arthur Stocks is standing at the back, on the right of the middle row is a soldier we believe to be named as Bailey, and the soldier sat in the middle front is Private 14340725 Dodd who was awarded a Military Medal in Burma and who was killed in action at Mandalay on the 10th March 1945. [We believe Bailey was Corporal 5339884 Bailey who was killed in action at Kabwet on the 30th January 1945]. 30 January 1945: Statement: After we took Hill 15R at Kabwet, we were sitting at the top of the hill having a cigarette and a sniper, from where I don't know, shot L/Cpl.[Bailey?] who was sitting beside me. |
photo; thanks to Veterans Website Project
photo; Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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