STANLEY FRANCIS BAILEY

image from the Suffolk Chronical And Mercury newspaper.

Born: 1894, Ipswich.

Died: 7th May 1918; age 24; Died of Wounds.

Residence: Ipswich.

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: Son of James & Sarah Elizabeth Bailey; husband of Alice Bailey, of 31, Alston Road, Ipswich.

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, a Steam Hammer Smith – Engineers.

Robert, 19, a Smith’s Striker.

In 1916, Ipswich, Harold married, Alice Howard, born 1896, Ipswich. They had 1 son:

Herman Stanley Bailey, born 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: