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Lieutenant Basil Wilberforce Bailey

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Military service

Age: 34
Rank: Lieutenant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division: 72nd Bn.
Birth: May 27, 1883 Greenwich, London, United Kingdom
Enlistment: June 1, 1916 British Columbia
Death: February 9, 1918

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: XI. B. 4.
Additional information

Son of Edward Thomas Bailey of Greenwich, England, and of Mary J. Gunton (formerly Bailey), of Gibson's Landing, Howe Sound, British Columbia.

Brother of Sergeant Christopher Thomas Bailey, who died while serving with the Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment) and Private Benjamin Bernard Bailey, who died while serving with the Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment).

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In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 362 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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