Name
Eric Henry Platt Bailey
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/11/1918
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Flight Lieutenant
Royal Air Force
206 Squadron
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LINSELLES COMMUNAL CEMETERY
D.5
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Stained Glass Window, Hitchin Boys Grammar School, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin
Pre War
He was the son of James Henry and Esther Bailey of 43, Ridgeway, Enfield, Middlesex. Mr Bailey was a Civil Engineer. He was born on the 25th March 1898 and attended the Hitchin Grammar School from 1911-1913 having previously attended Letchworth C. C. School.
During his childhood he lived with his parents at ‘Cleveland’, Baldock Road, Letchworth. He left school to go to the City of London School.
Wartime Service
He was gazetted as having been granted a commission by the Spring of 1918. He flew De Havilland DH9s with 206 Squadron based at Alquines which is between Boulogne and St. Omer in France. From the lst November 1917 the Squadron had been known as 6 (Naval) Squadron and was redesignated 206 Squadron when the R.A.F. was formed on the 1st April 1918.
At some time between the 29th July and the 4th August 1918 he and a 2nd Lieutenant R. Milne brought down an enemy aircraft. On the 11th August, only three months to the day before the Armistice, he was killed whilst flying in the Linselles area where there was also an airfield.
At first he was reported as missing in action, but the intimation of his death followed a few weeks later.
He is buried in Grave D.5 in the Linselles Communal Cemetery which is near Roubaix in France.
Additional Information
Son of James and Esther Bailey of 43 The Ridgeway, Enfield, Middlesex.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
