Name
Thomas Harry Bailey
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/09/1917
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
R/13616
King's Royal Rifle Corps
12th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panels 115 to 119, 162A and 163A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, St Michael and All Angels Church Memorial, Watford, Not on the Bushey memorials
Pre War
Son of Thomas and Martha Elizabeth (nee PARSONS) BAILEY; husband of Agnes (nee SOUTHAM) BAILEY.
His parents married 3 August 1891 at St Matthew’s, Oxhey, Herts. Thomas died 1940 aged 76; Martha died 1951 aged 79; both in the Watford district.
Thomas was born 28 February 1893 in Bushey, Herts [not Hertford], and baptised 8 October 1893 at St Matthew’s, Oxhey. He married 2 August 1913 at St Michael’s, Watford, and resided in Watford. Agnes remarried 1919 in the Watford district to Charles BRYANT, and died 1966 in the Watford district aged 75.
On the 1901 Census, aged 8 he lived in Bushey, with his parents and three siblings. On the 1911 Census, a labourer aged 19 he lived in Watford, with his parents and three siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in London 1 June 1915 for Short Service (Duration of the War): a chocolate maker aged 24 of Watford, 5’6″ tall, married.
He was appointed Lance-Corporal 8 October 1915, and embarked for the Western Front 18 November 1915. Joined his Regiment 24 November 1915, and suffered a gun shot wound to the right leg 18 September 1916. Then he was promoted to Corporal 16 August 1917, was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 19 November 1915, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
There is an article about and a Death announcement for Thomas in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 3 November 1917. Recorded as Harry T BAILEY at St Michael's; and as Rifleman in the Soldiers Died in the Great War dataset. His brother Alfred died 2 April 1918 and also features on Watford Borough Roll of Honour.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
