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Sgt. Michael Bayles
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Felling
Michael Bayles was discharged on the 22nd of August 1917 due to illness.
Pte. C. Bayley
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
C Bayley was wounded jim the right elbow and was discharged in 1919
2nd Lt. Peter Ferguson "Old Bill" Bayley
British Army 9th Btn. Rifle Brigade
from:Glasgow
(d.23th March 1918)
Before becoming commissioned Peter Bayley served as a Corporal in the 12th Highland Light Infantry with the service number 4034. He became a temporary 2nd Lt on 26th June 1917. He joined his battalion in France on 5th December 1917.
Peter was wounded (gun shot, right thigh) at Passchendaele on 13th December 1917. He rejoined his battalion on 11th February 1918. He was reported as missing in action between 22nd and 24th March 1918 at Flavy-Le-Martel. Later, because his father was in denial about his son's death, as it was presumed he was POW. However, having contacted his son's fellow comrades he found out his son was killed on 23rd March 1918 due to a wound to the leg. He had told his men not to wait with him as it was part of a retreat. Rest In peace. Brave soul.
Pte. Edwin Baylie
British Army 19th Hussars
from:Camberwell, London
According to POW records from the National Archives, Edwin Baylie was a POW in 1916 at Dulmen. He also married in Lausanne, Switzerland in Nov 1916 so I'm assuming at some point he was moved.
Pte. Ernest Augustus Baylis
British Army 2nd Btn., "A" Coy. King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment
from:West Ham
(d.8th May 1915)
Gnr. Barnett Bayliss
British Army 187th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Liverpool
(d.22nd August 1917)
Pte. Harry Bayliss
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
(d.11th May 1915)
Pte. Harry Bayliss
British Army Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Stratford Upon Avon
(d.11th May 1915)
Harry Baylis was born in Birmingham on 3rd November 1879. His name has been incorrectly listed as Bayliss on most of his Army documentation. There is confirmation of his death, reported as killed in action on 11th May 1915 near Warwick Farm outside Ypres. Regimental records do not actually record this fact, but is detailed on his death certificate. His body has never been recovered. He is listed on the Menin Gate memorial and also on the War Memorial in Stratford upon Avon.
Pte Paul William Thomas Bayliss
British Army 5th Btn Durham Light Infantry
from:South Shields
Paul Bayliss served with the 5th Battalion Durham Light Infantry in WW1.
Sjt. William Alexander Bayliss
British Army Oxfordshire Yeomanry (Queens Own Hussars)
from:Tewkesbury
(d.5th July 1917)
Serjeant William Bayliss served with the Oxfordshire Yeomanry (Queens Own Hussars).
Capt. L. M. Bayly
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
2nd Lt. William Henry Baynes
British Army 1st Btn. Queens Royal West Surrey Rgt.
from:8 Black Griffin Lane, Canterbury
(d.12th October 1918)
William Henry Baynes is my great uncle. He lost his mother when he was only 11 years old and was one of six children. His father Henry went on to look after the children who had not left home, one of whom was my grandad. I found William while reserching my family history. Although my mother knew of him and told me the family did not want him to sign up, he did and was in France by October 1914.
William is mentioned twice in the WW1 war diaries of the Queen's Royal (West Surrey) Regiment. He was a bomber trying to take enemy trenches at Lump Lane (Somme). These trenches were in places nearly knee deep in mud and water from the heavy rain of the previous evening and the going was very heavy. This was not a successful attack and William and four men became isolated in a shell hole having run out of bombs or grenades, but luckily they were covered by a small party sent to help and made a withdrawal. He was later wounded at Menin and sent to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, Southampton where he died on the 12th October 1918.
He received the 1914 star and British War Medal and Victory Medal. William is named on the Great War Memorial outside Canterbury Cathedral.
2nd Lt. William Henry Baynes MM.
British Army 1st Btn. Queens (Royal West Surrey) Regiment
from:8 Black Griffin Lane, Canterbury
(d.12th Oct 1918)
William Baynes was my Great Uncle. Unfortunately, I never met him but have completed some research. William signed up for the war in 1914. On 10th of November 1916 he appeared in the Gazette for London and Edinburgh as he had received the Military Medal, he was a Serjeant at the time. Later he was made a Second-Lieutenant.
He appears in the War dairies on 29th of June 1917 during the Battle of Arras. During an operation aiming to clear Kitten trench of the enemy. William and others began to move into their appointed places in Lump Lane ready for the action. Conditions included knee deep mud from heavy rain the evening before. The ground between Lump Lane and the objective was nothing but a mass of shell holes. Only the right wave of the advance succeeded, a small party of bombers led by William. It became evident that the enemy was present in strength and the surprise attack had failed and it was decided not to proceed. William and the four men with him became isolated having run out of bombs or grenades. 2nd Lt. Ashpitel was sent with a party of picked men to cover Williams' withdrawal to Lump Lane which was successful.
Shortly after, during the Third Battle of Ypres 2nd Lt. Baynes was listed as injured. I have traced my Great Uncle to Netley Hospital, Southampton where he died on 12th October 1918.
L/Cpl. Percy Frank Baynham
British Army 2/5th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers
(d.21st Sep 1918)
Pte. Danile Baziere
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Dublin
(d.7th Jun 1917 )
Danille Baziere was the son of Lewis and Kate Baziere, of 7, Plunkett's Cottage, Sandwich St., Dublin. He served with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers 9th Battalion and was killed in action in the Battle of Messines in June 1917, aged 21. He is buried in Voormezeele Enclosure No.3 in Belgium
Pte. James Beach
British Army 1/6 Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:9 Letchwell Cottages, Forest Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne
(d.20th Sep 1918)
James Beach was my Great-great-uncle. He was the son of William and Rachel Beach, of 9, Letchwell Cottages, Forest Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne. He lived at Letchwell Cottages and was 18 years old in 1914 when he enlisted at Westmoor, Newcastle upon Tyne. To begin with he was in the 5th Battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers, Reg No: 5/2165, and was later moved to the 1/6th 'A' Coy (Territorial) Battalion.
He fought on The Western Front and in August 1916 the 1/6th were transferred to 118th Infantry Brigade, 39th Division. James was only 23 when he died in France and Flanders, tragically, with only a couple of months to go before the war ended. He is buried in Belgium at the Leuze Communal Cemetery. His Roll medal card shows he was awarded the Victory Medal and British War Medal. When I was small I found a small bible in a drawer at my Grandmother's house and she said it belonged to James. It was stained through with his blood.
Rest in Peace, James.
L/Cpl. Charles Joseph Beacham
British Army 4th Battalion The Rifle Brigade
from:London
(d.25th Aug 1915)
This is taken from an article in a magazine called Light and Truth dated October 1915:
Fell In Action, August 25TH 1915.
A/Cpl. Charles Joseph Beacham, 4th Battalion Rifle Brigade, was one of our heroic men who answered his country's call last December. He had previously served his King nine years in India, and after three years' service in the Homeland, he returned to civil life, and was free from further military service. Notwithstanding this, when war broke out he felt the call of duty, and in reply to his wife said: "I should feel a coward if I stayed at home." So on December 4 he again answered the call of King and Country.
He and his excellent wife joined us in membership at St. George's Hall some three years ago. Mr. Beacham's duties prevented his being in regular attendance at divine worship on Sundays, but when off duty it was a pleasure to see him and his wife sitting together in the House of God.
We greatly sympathise with Mrs. Beacham in her sore bereavement; she is a capable worker, and rendered this Mission valued service during the great Dock Strike both as a voluntary visitor and assistant in the extra clerical work which the Strike involved.
Her husband is one of the many obscure, unknown heroes of this terrible war, who, if they had their due, would doubtless have received the Victoria Cross for distinguished and heroic service. Mrs. Beacham was accustomed to receive a daily letter from her husband, and has given me the privilege of reading some of them, from one of which I have taken the liberty of making the following extracts.
This letter was written from:- "Somewhere, 15/5/1915. "...I am pleased to say I am in the best of condition again. My slight wound has healed up. The captain of my company was shot down and me and my chum were called on to pick him up, and we had to carry him across an open space, where shells were bursting and falling like rain, but, thank God we got him through safe, and ourselves, except for a wound behind the right ear for me, and my chum was hit on the right knee. It was as if we were walking to our deaths, for scores fell trying to reach the other side, and we went through it three times and only got slightly wounded, and mine is quite healed now. Then, two days after, we had a badly wounded man in the trench, and they asked for two volunteers to carry him to safety, and me and my chum carried him away, and the Germans fired on us all the way. Shells were bursting all round us as we carried him down the road, then we got into a ditch and walked along that but they still fired, then we got into the growing corn and, thank God we got him to safety. There is no doubt God's guarding hand has been over us two during the last week, for we have faced death to help others and pulled through. The doctor says we were heroes, but the sacrifice was too great, and he could not understand men facing death like that. I told him we were thinking of the wounded man not of ourselves. At the time I lost all my belongings...all we had was what we stood up in...My regiment has been in the heaviest and thickest fighting, and about 300 of us faced thousands of Germans and kept them back and saved the situation, and they are all proud of us and say they do not know how we kept them back as we were only a handful; they could have walked over us, but they have not got the pluck to face our bayonets. I will tell you all about it when I come home...Have you read the story of Neuve Chapelle...Our battalion made their name there and my chum was recommended for gallantry there. Poor Humphrys is dead, Manville was hit in the back, and I carried Jimmy Fryer out on a stretcher from the trenches on Wednesday night, shot in the stomach."
What manner of men and women ought you and I be for whom such a price is being paid?
Jennie Johnson.
Pte. Rupert Beacham
British Army 8th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment
from:11 Victoria Road, Bedminster, Bristol, GLS,
(d.10th April 1918)
Sgt. James Beadham
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Frederick George Beadle
British Army 3rd Btn. Royal Fusiliers
(d.30th Aug 1918 )
I found a service medal in my Father's possession that I'd like to return to the family of Frederick Beadle. He is buried in the Bois-Guillaume Communal Cemetery in France.
Pte. John Thomas Beadle
British Army 2nd Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers
from:North Cowton, Darlington
(d.23rd Apr 1918)
The family know that Jack Beadle is remembered on the Loos Memorial, in France. However, I seem unable to find any material relating to the military engagement(s) of that particular day which resulted in my uncle's demise and would be more than grateful if anyone can point me in the right direction for ascertaining this.
Pte. T. A. Beadle
British Army 11th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Hull
(d.10th Mar 1917)
Lt. Frederick Searth Beadon
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pioneer Charles Arthur Beak
British Army Wireless Section Royal Engineers
from:Shepherd's Bush, London
(d.30th November 1915)
Charles Beak was the son of John Arthur and Anna Mary Christina Beak of 46, Rylett Rd., Shepherd's Bush, London.
He was 18 when he died and is buried in the Douala Cemetery, Cameroons, grave 22.
Lt. Walter Beakley
British Army 5th Btn. Sherwood Forresters
from:Walton Highway, Norfolk
My grandfather Walter Beakley could not talk about the war I know he was wounded in the arm as he was not able to play the flute after the war I know he trained at Halton near Wendover Buckinghamshire. I believe he fought at the Somme with the 5th Sherwood Forresters and also served with 194 Coy, Chinese Labour Corps.
Sapper Alfred Ernest Beal
British Army Royal Engineers
from:20 Hogarth Street, Sneinton, Nottingham
(d.27th June 1916)
Alfred is my 1st Cousin twice removed.
Pte. Edgar Joseph Beal
British Army 7th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Sheffield
Edgar J. Beal had his WW1 medals forfeited for desertion. These were restored to him when he admitted desertion in front of the assembled Battalion.
2nd Lt. Ernest Frederick Beal VC.
British Army 13th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment
from:Brighton
(d.22nd March 1918)
Ernest Beal was killed in action on the 22rd of March 1918, aged 35. Commemorated on the Arras Memorial in the Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery in Arras, France, he was the son of John J. W. and Jane Stillman Beal, of 55 East St., Brighton
An Extract from the London Gazette, dated 31st May, 1918, records the following:- "For most conspicuous bravery and determined leading when in command of a company detailed to occupy a certain section of trench. When the company was established, it was found that a considerable gap of about 400 yards existed between the left flank of the company and the neighbouring unit, and that this gap was strongly held by the enemy. It was of vital importance that the gap should be cleared, but no troops were then available. Organising a small party of less than a dozen men, he led them against the enemy. On reaching an enemy machine gun, 2nd Lt. Beal immediately sprang forward, and with his revolver killed the team and captured the gun. Continuing along the trench he encountered and dealt with another machine gun in the same manner, and in all captured four enemy guns, and inflicted severe casualties. Later in the evening, when a wounded man had been left in the open under heavy enemy fire, he, regardless of danger, walked up close to an enemy machine gun and brought in the wounded man on his back. 2nd Lt. Beal was killed by a shell on the following morning."
Corporal Joseph Henry Beal
British Army 10th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:22 Model Place, Darlington, County Durham
(d.4th Sep 1915)
Joseph Beal was born on the 5th May 1888 at 5 Elvins Yard Darlington, the son of Henry Beal a house painter and his wife Margaret Ann. Joseph was their second child, his sister Ethel being born in 1885. He was baptised on the 30th May 1888 in St John’s Church. In the 1891 census the family are living at 11 Ridsdale Street, in 1893 his sister Eva is born. By the time of the 1901 census twelve year old Joseph and the family have moved home and they are living at 13 Model Place. Across the street at number 20 lived Thomas and Sarah Jefferson and their family! As the years passed romance blossomed between Joseph and Faith Jefferson and on 6th October 1908 they married. The service was conducted at St Hilda’s the local parish church and the following year their daughter Gladys May was born and in 1910 Faith their second daughter was born. The 1911 census lists the family as living at 67 Model Place and Joseph is working as a labourer for the “North of England School Furnishing Co. Ltd”.
On the 4th August 1914 Great Britain declares war on Germany and on the 17th August Joseph enlists in to the army. It must have been a difficult decision as he leaves behind his daughters and his wife whom is expecting their third child. I don’t think anyone could imagine how the events of the next twelve months would change the Beal family. Joseph joins the 10th Battalion of the DLI. As so much of Joseph’s service record is destroyed by fire it is difficult to trace all the events. However it does show him deployed in France as part of the “British Expeditionary Force”.
On the 16th November 1914 Faith give birth to a son and on the 13th December 1914 he is baptised Joseph Henry, St Hilda’s parish records show Faith and the children were living with her mother Sarah at 22 Model Place. On the 1st December Joseph is promoted to Lance Corporal without pay. In the New Year Faith’s health started to fail and Joseph returns home on compassionate leave! Faith is diagnosed as suffering from Acute Nephritis (inflammation of the kidney) and she passes away on 13th January 1915. The funeral takes place at West Cemetery on the 3rd February. Faith’s mother is made the children’s guardian and she is also named as Joseph’s next of kin.
On the 1st of February 1915 promotion to Lance Corporal is confirmed with pay and on the 8th of August he is promoted to Corporal, things for the Beal seem to be changing for the better. However this was not to last as on the 4th of September 1915 Joseph was killed in action near Ypres, France. Back home life became harder for Joseph’s three children as their Grandmother Sarah struggled to make ends meet. On the 5th January 1916 wrote to the paymaster in York requesting information on any monies due to the late Corporal Beal and on the 9th March 1916 was awarded a pension of 15/- a week for her and the three children. (In 2005 15/- is equal to around £32 a week) On the 4th April 1918 Sarah received the personal effects of Corporal Beal it was his army identity disc. The wheels slowly turned and on the 8th of August 1919 the infantry records office wrote asking for information to allow the release of Joseph’s commemoration scroll on the 15th of August Sarah completed an army document (W 8050) for the dependants of a deceased soldier this was then signed off by the Rev Cowgill. Joseph’s children grew up and married living in Darlington for their whole lives.
Pte. Percy Beal
British Army 2nd Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment
from:53 High House Terrace, Sheffield
(d.9th Aug 1915)
Percy Beal was positioned north of Ypres in August 1915, which makes it highly likely that he was involved in the Second Battle of Ypres and the action in which a British mine was detonated at Hooge. Percy died of his wounds on the 9th of August 1915, which was the day in which the British 6th Division moved to occupy the crater as a defensive structure. Percy has no known grave, although his name appears on the Menin Gate Memorial, and also inside Sacred Heart Catholic church in Hillsborough, Sheffield. Percy's older brother Charles was also in the trenches at this time, and in a postcard home he writes that "I haven't heard from Percy, he moved up a fortnight ago, so keep writing him". This postcard is dated 30th of July 1915, ten days before Percy's Death.
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