Henry Irwin Bailey

Forenames

Henry Irwin AWMM

Surname

Bailey AWMM

Also known as

Irwin Bailey AWMM

Service number

WWI 10073 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

1893 AWMM

Next of kin

John William Bailey (father), Twiston', Dominion Road, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 01 Apr 1916 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

Battle of Messines AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 10073 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Farmer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 01 Apr 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 49 or HMNZT 50 AWMM Vessel was Tahiti or Maunganui AWMM Sergeant AWMM 11th Reinforcements, J Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Wounded twice AWMM
• Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Sergeant AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion AWMM

Youngest son of Mr John William and Mrs Mary Jane Bailey, of 'Twiston', Dominion Road, Auckland.

Educated at Taupriri School, and Auckland Grammar school.

Two sons, brothers Henry Irwin Bailey (10073) and Allan Richard Bailey (1297) were killed in WW1.

Next of Kin: Mr J. W. Bailey, Dominion Rd, Auckld. (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

28 Feb 1917 AWMM
Age  23 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

London Rifle Brigade Cemetery, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium AWMM II.E.32. AWMM

Obituary

Obituary: Auckland Star, 15 March 1917

Obituary: Auckland Weekly News, 29 March 1917, p. 48. "Sergeant H. J. [sic] Bailey, who was killed in action in France on February 28, left New Zealand in April of last year. He volunteered and was trained in the Waikato Mounted Regiment. He was the fourth and youngest son of Mr. J. W. Bailey, of Dominion Road, and grandson of the late Mr. John Bollard, M.P. He was educated at the Taupiri school and the Auckland Grammar School, and afterwards went into farming pursuits. Sergeant Bailey, who was 23 years of age, was a good horseman and a keen footballer, playing with the Lower Waikato representatives." AWMM

Memorial name

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Roll of Honour, St Alban's, Dominion Road, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Memorial font, St Alban's, Dominion Road, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22276032
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/486909/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/486909
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• Burton, O. (1922). The Auckland regiment : being an account of the doings on active service of the First, Second and Third Battalions of the Auckland Regiment. Wellington, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  28: 16
• Auckland Star
  Obituary: Auckland Star, 15 March 1917
• Auckland Weekly News
  Obituary: Auckland Weekly News, 29 March 1917, p. 48.
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 2: Includes portrait
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Sloane, K. (2014) Living With High Explosives, The 1st NZ Light Trench Mortar Battery, 1916-1918.
  Public - Keith - 2 March 2015 - Military History