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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Ballarat
• Land Victoria, Australia
• Last residence Ballarat East, Victoria
• Family 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.
• Education Humffray Street School ; St Paul’s Sunday School
• Profession Blacksmith

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted 25 June 1915, Liverpool, New South Wales
• Service number 2779
• Rank Serjeant
• Medals 1914/15 Star Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal
• Regiment and unit 54th Bn. Australian Infantry D Coy
• Other data related to military career 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

• Wounded Westhoek Ridge, 15 October, gas shelled in a dugout
• Type of wounds Died of wounds in n° 17 CCS (mustard shell gas poisoning)
• Died at the age of 24
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXII - B - 3A

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