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Military service
Service number:
1570
Age:
28
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Division:
No. 4 Coy.
Birth:
March 16, 1887
Enlistment:
Calgary, Alberta
Death:
May 7, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10
Additional information
Son of the Rev. Robert Taylor Bailey, M.A., and Alice Magil, his wife. Ex-member of R.N.W.M.P. and Legion of Frontiersmen. Sub-manager of Royal Trust Company, Winnipeg. Enlisted in 1914.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Alexander Bailey
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Memorial
Panel 10 of the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Roll of Honour
Lance Corporal Alexander Bailey's name was included on The Royal Trust Company 1914 - 1918 Roll of Honour. The Royal Trust Company was established in Montreal in 1899 and by 1914 had branches across Canada. Image source: The Standard / Canada's Aid to the Allies and Peace Memorial. Edited by Frederick Yorston. Published by the Montreal Standard Publishing Co., Ltd., Montreal. This large Souvenir Edition magazine included Rolls of Honour for various prominent Canadian businesses. -
Photo of Alexander Bailey
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
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Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alexander Bailey
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alexander Bailey
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alexander Bailey
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alexander Bailey
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alexander Bailey
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alexander Bailey
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alexander Bailey
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 4 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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