Circumstances of Casualty: “Died of Wounds” This non-commissioned officer while in charge of a sub-section engaged in building a gun-pit was wounded by splinters of an enemy high explosive shell which landed nearby. His wounds were attended to and he was evacuated to No. 35 Field Ambulance where he succumbed to his wounds the same day.

BX October 5. 1916

Four Have Been Killed in Action – Five Have Been Wounded – A Days Record

The price paid by Brantford for the Somme victory, glorious as it was, is being brought home to Brantfordites through the issuance of the official casualty lists covering the engagement.
    
Today’s list is about the heaviest since the fight for the Ypres salient, there being five reported killed in action or died of wounds, and four wounded.

George Tew Bailey

Mrs. Minnie Bailey, 95 Chestnut Avenue, received this morning the yellow telegram from Ottawa that conveys sad news, and by this learned that her husband, Sergeant George Tew Bailey, of the Canadian artillery, had died of wounds while in the 35th Field Ambulance, on Sept. 24. Sergeant Bailey left Brantford with the 32nd Battery, and was transferred in England to the 13th Battery. Previous to his enlistment he was a timekeeper at the Massey-Harris plant here. He was a member of Harmony lodge and Brant Encampment, I.O.O.F., and one of the players for the Tutela Football club, who carried off the championship of the Brantford and Paris Football league before the war, the team taking The Expositor, Courier and John Hill cups that year – the first time the feat had been accomplished.

A particularly sad feature of the case is that soon after he left to “do his bit” a child was born to Mrs. Bailey, but this joy, too, was denied her, the little one passing away.

A brother, Sergeant William Bailey of the 125th, now at Bramshott Camp, and his father at Fulham, S.W. London, also mourns the loss.