BORN NAFERTON 1898. SON OF MATTHEW BAILEY (1861-1933) & MARY JANE BAILEY (1869-1944), OF 19, COLONIAL STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS); 3 ST JOHN’S PLACE, ALBION STREET, DRIFFIELD (CWGC ADDRESS) AND 235, BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF A RAILWAY SIGNALMAN. BROTHER TO WALTER, HARRY AND ELSIE.
HE ENLISTED HULL. HIS ARMY RECORDS STATE THAT HE WAS BORN IN HULL? SERVED AS PRIVATE, 3965, 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. ARRIVED IN BELGIUM ON 27/10/1915. KILLED AT YPRES, ON 13/02/1916, AGED 18. COMMEMORATED ON THE YPRES MENIN GATE MEMORIAL.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE NEVER CLAIMED AND HIS MEDALS DISPOSED OF IN 1922. HIS FATHER WAS REFUSED A WAR PENSION AS NOT DEEMED IN NEED.
First name:
ALBERT JAMES
Regiment:
Military Number:
3965
Rank:
Private
Date Died
13/02/1916
Place died:
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
18
19, COLONIAL STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Place Buried
