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  • Ballarat
  • Victoria, Australia
  • Ballarat East, Victoria
  • Youngest son of Thomas Sleight Bailey and Emily Jane Fraser, of 51, Moore St., Footscray, Victoria, Australia; a brother Lt. Walter Leslie (5th Pioneers) was KIA 10 May 1918; a sister, Ruby May.
  • Humffray Street School ; St Paul’s Sunday School
  • Blacksmith

Military service

  • Enlisted 25 June 1915, Liverpool, New South Wales
  • 2779
  • Serjeant
  • 1914/15 Star Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal
  • 54th Bn. Australian Infantry D Coy
  • Enlisted with the 9/2nd Bn.; embarkation September 1915, Sydney; transferred to 54th Bn. February 1916; to France in June 1916 ; promotion to Cpl in January 1917, to Sgt. in June 1917

Death

  • Westhoek Ridge, 15 October, gas shelled in a dugout
  • Died of wounds in n° 17 CCS (mustard shell gas poisoning)
  • 24
  • XXII - B - 3A

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