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Arthur Bailey

Arthur Bailey
Rank: 
Sergeant
Regimental number: 
451100
Unit at enlistment: 
58th Battalion
Force: 
C.E.F.
Volunteered or conscripted: 
Volunteered
Survived the war: 
Yes
Wounded: 
Yes
Cemetery: 
Mount Hope Cemetery, Brantford, Ontario
Birth country: 
England
Birth county: 
Suffolk
Birth city: 
Ixworth
Address at enlistment: 
11 Rose Avenue, Brantford, Ontario
Next of kin address: 
11 Rose Avenue, Brantford, Ontario
Trade or calling: 
Blacksmiths helper
Employer: 
Cockshutt Plow Co.
Religious denominations: 
Wesleyan
Marital status: 
Married
Age at enlistment: 
39

Letters and documents

BX November 15, 1917

Buried, Injured

Mrs. Arthur Bailey, of 23 Gordon Street, has received word that her husband, Sergeant Arthur Bailey had been sent to the Divisional Base Depot and marked as unfit for further service at the front. He is suffering as a result of having been buried by sand bags and earth. He left Brantford with the 58th Battalion and formerly worked at the Cockshutt Plow Co.

BX February 23, 1918
 
Returned This Week

The following list of soldiers who have returned or are due to return home to Brantford this week was issued today by the Military Hospital Commission. Pte. E.A. Blackmore, Sergeant A. Bailey, Pte. John C. Cuddihee, 121 West Mill Street; Pte. Clawsey, Pte. H.J. Dunsdon, Pte. Ernest Edwards, 86 Mary Street; Pte. D.C. Glasspole, Sergeant. J.A. Jewell, Pte. F. Kenyon, Pte. J.D. MacConnachie, Pte. M.G. Scareman, Pte. S.J. Whittington.

BX December 27, 1961

Arthur Bailey

Arthur Bailey, 85 of 119 Mintern Avenue died Tuesday in the Westminister Hospital, London.  Born in Ixworth, England, he came to Canada 54 years ago.  As a young man, in England, he served with the Metropolitan Police and also in the Reserve Army with the Suffolk Regiment in India.  Mr. Bailey was a veteran of the Boer War and the First World War, enlisting in the 58th Battalion and serving overseas.  For 25 years he was employed in the wood working shop at Massey-Ferguson, retiring in 1946.  Mr. Bailey was a member of the Salvation Army.  Surviving is one son, William, of this city, one brother Freeman, of St. Catharines; two grandchildren and three great grandchildren.  His wife, the former Lilly Bailey, died in 1948.  Mr. Bailey is at the Hill and Robinson Funeral Home until Friday for service in the chapel at 2 p.m.  Interment will be in Mount Hope Cemetery with Brid. Victor McLean officiating.

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