25 October 2009

2363470 Dvr Alfred George Bailes, Royal Corps of Signals

2363470 Driver Alfred George Bailes of Royal Corps of Signals died on the 25th October 1941. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission website notes that he was serving with the 1st Line of Communications Signals and that he was the Son of Lilian Bailes of Newcastle-on-Tyne and the husband of Margaret Coulson Bailes of Byker, Newcastle-on-Tyne. He was 21 years old when he died.

Alfred Bailes is buried in the Byker and Heaton Cemetery in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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