Private 18222 Ernest BAILEY

3 Company, 1st Battalion, Genadier Guards

Killed in action in the Battle of Festubert, France and Flanders, 15th May 1915, age 21

Commemorated Le Touret Memorial, Pas-de-Calais, France. Panels 88 to 90 and 162

Awarded 1915 Star, British War and Victory Medals

Son of Thomas and Mary Ann Bailey

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Born c1894 and baptised 2nd July 1894 at Stockingford

Attended Stockingford Council School

1901 Census, living at 515 Arbury Road, Stockingford

1911 Census living 3 Webb Street, Stockingford

Employed as a coal miner at Stanley’s Colliery, Nuneaton

Medal card states enlisted at Nuneaton, arrived in Theatre