STANLEY FRANCIS BAILEY

Image from the Suffolk Chronicle And Mercury.

Born: 1894, Ipswich.

Died: 7th May 1918; age 24; died of wounds.

Residence: 31, Alston Road, Ipswich.

Occupation: Barber – at Mr. Warboys’ hairdressing establishment, Hamilton Road, Felixstowe.

Enlistment Location: Ipswich.

 

Rank: Private; Service Number: 41109

Regiment: Bedfordshire Regiment, 1st Battalion.

Formerly 265513, Suffolk Regiment.

 

Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.

 

Grave Reference:

Plot 2 Row B Grave 8.

Tannay British Cemetery,

Thiennes,

France.

 

Relatives Notified & Address: Youngest son of James & Sarah Elizabeth Bailey; husband of Alice Bailey, of 31, Alston Road, Ipswich.

Brother-in-law to SAMUEL JAMES HOWARD.

 

CENSUS

 

1901   21, Alston Road, Ipswich.

 

Stanley was 6 years old and living with his parents & siblings.

James Bailey, 52, an Iron Foundry – Blacksmith, born Hazelwood, Leiston, Suffolk.

Sarah Elizabeth Bailey (nee Hunwick), 46, born Pebmarsh, Essex.

James Albert Bailey, 24, an Iron & Brass Tuner, born Ipswich.

Sarah Louisa Bailey, 14, born Ipswich.

Robert Henry Bailey, 9, born Ipswich.

 

1911   31, Alston Road, Ipswich.

 

Stanley was 16 years old, a Barber. He was living with his parents & brother.

James, 63, Steam Hammer Smith for an Engineer.

Robert, 19, a Smith’s Striker.

 

Stanley’s father, James Bailey, died on the 1st July 1915, after a painful affliction at his residence, 31, Alston Road, Ipswich and was buried at Section FF, Ipswich Old Cemetery. He had worked for 40 years at Orwell Works.

 

On the 21st October 1916, at Holy Trinity Church, Ipswich, 22 year old Stanley, a hairdresser, of 31, Alston Road, Ipswich, married 20 year old Alice Howard, a domestic servant, born March 1896, Ipswich – daughter of Frank Howard, a storekeeper, and Alice Howard (nee Jennings), of 22, Chalon Street, Ipswich.

 

Alice and Stanley had one son:

Herman Stanley Bailey, born June 1918, Ipswich.

 

Soldiers’ Effects to Alice Bailey – widow.

 

Stanley is also remembered on the war memorial at Holy Trinity Church, Ipswich.

 

THE BEDFORDSHIRE REGIMENT 1st Battalion:

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