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Personal data

• Name BAISH
• Initials R
• First name ROLAND JOHN
• Place of birth Chippenham
• Country Wiltshire, England
• Family Son of Herbert and Ellen Baish, of Chippenham, Wiltsire; two sisters, Jessie and Ivy Madge; three brothers, Sidney, Frank and Harold;
• Extra info It might be that this is not the grave of Roland as he survived the war and died in 1944; it is more likely to be the grave of his brother Frank (although there is no military information confirming this)

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Bath
• Service number 26606
• Rank Gunner
• Regiment and unit 122nd Heavy Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery
• Army - Corps - Division ?
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career To France on 9 September 1914

Death

• Wounded 18 August, Kruisstraat
• Type of wounds Died of shell wound to the right thigh, n°17 CCS
• Date of death 19 August 1915
• Died at the age of 26
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery III - C - 17A

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