Name
Alfred Henry Bailey
16 August 1879
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
18/08/1916
37
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
11936
Princess Charlotte of Wales’ (Royal Berkshire) Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VERMELLES BRITISH CEMETERY
III. O. 8.
France
Headstone Inscription
LORD ALL PITYING JESU BLEST GRANT HIM THINE ETERNAL REST
UK & Other Memorials
Berkhamsted Town Memorial, St Peter’s Church Plaque, Berkhamsted
Pre War
Alfred Henry (Warner) Bailey was born on 16 August 1879 in Egham, Berkshire, the son of John Henry and Ann Bailey and one of seven children.
By the time of the 1881 Census the family were living in High Street, Berkhamsted, where his father was working as a watchmaker.
He married Annie Elizabeth Fish on 16 December 1899 in Berkhamsted and on the 1901 Census they were living at Austens Place, Hemel Hempstead, where Alfred was working as a wood working machinist. They then moved to Camden and Alfred was working for the London and North Western Railway at Camden Station from 21 March 1903 initially as a Porter, and later as a Checker. Their first child Albert Henry was born in 1906 in the St Pancras registration area (includes Camden). They had three more children, Ivy (1912), Dorothy (1914) and Reginald (1915) and lived at 4 Bayham Place, Camden Town, London.
Wartime Service
He volunteered for army service on 3 September 1914 and enlisted in St Pancras, Middlesex, serving with the 2nd Battalion, Princess Charlotte of Wales' (Royal Berkshire) Regiment in France from 23 November 1914.
Albert was killed in action on 18 August 1916, aged 37 and buried in Vermelles British Cemetery, France.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £9 and pay owing of £14 4s, she also received a pension of £1 5s a week for herself and her four children. She remarried in 1918 to John Buzzacott, but when living at 4 Bayham Place, Camden, Town, London, NW1, ordered his headstone inscription: "LORD ALL PITYING JESU BLEST GRANT HIM THINE ETERNAL REST".
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jo Bayley
