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Basil Wilberforce Bailey

In memory of:

Lieutenant Basil Wilberforce Bailey

February 9, 1918

Military Service

Age:

34

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)

Division:

72nd Bn.

Additional Information

Born:

May 27, 1883
Greenwich, London, United Kingdom

Enlistment:

June 1, 1916
Vancouver, British Columbia

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).

Digitized service file.

Commemorated on Page 362 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

VILLERS STATION CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

XI. B. 4.

Location:

Villers-au-Bois is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 11 kilometres north-west of Arras. The VILLERS STATION CEMETERY is about 2 kilometres north-west of the village.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Photo of Basil Wilberforce Bailey– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

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    Photo of Basil Wilberforce Bailey – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Daily Colonist of February 20, 1918. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist60y62uvic/mode/1up?view=theater

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    Newspaper clipping – From the Daily Colonist of February 20, 1918. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist60y62uvic/mode/1up?view=theater
  • Memorial– Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022

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    Memorial – Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Vancouver Daily Province March 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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    Newspaper clipping – From the Vancouver Daily Province March 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Grave marker

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    Grave marker
    Grave marker

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