Jack Cameron Bailey

Title

Mr

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Forenames

Jack Cameron AWMM

Surname

Bailey AWMM

Service number

WWI 7/1439 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

28 Sept 1894 AWMM
Ohakea, Rangitikei, New Zealand AWMM

Address before enlistment

Pre 01 Jul 1915 AWMM Bailey Road, Ohakea, Rangitikei, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

J.G. Bailey (father), Bailey Road, Ohakea, Rangitikei, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 14 Aug 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
• 1914-1916 AWMM Egypt AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 7/1439 AWMM

Military service

• J Squadron, Canterbury Mounted Rifles AWMM
• Wellington Mounted Rifles AWMM
• No. 1 Machine Gun Company AWMM
• New Zealand Machine Gun Corps AWMM

Medals and Awards

• 1914-1915 Star AWMM
  Egypt AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
  France/Belgium AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 01 Jul 1915 AWMM
Age  20 AWMM
Farm hand/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 Vessel was Hororata AWMM Trooper AWMM Canterbury Mounted Rifles AWMM 6th Reinforcements AWMM

Medical notes

• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Sent to hospital for illness, 25 September 1916. Moved to General Hospital, Rouen, 28 September 1916. Attached to the Strength Etaples, 18 October 1916. AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Wounded in action, 9 June 1917. Admitted to 77 Field Ambulance, 8 June 1917, then moved to 53 Casualty Clearing Station on the same day. Died the following day. AWMM
• Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand Machine Gun Corps AWMM

Bailey's father, James Alexander, (born Hobart, Australia, 1838, died Sanson 1928). His mother was Frances Mitchell (nee Cameron). He was the 13th child of James, and the 9th child of Frances, who was James' second wife.

Grave Text: 7/1439 Private J C Bailey; NZ Machine Gun Corps, 9th June 1917. Age 22

Father's initials as next of kin incorrectly given in the Nominal Rolls as J.H. AWMM

Death

9 Jun 1917 AWMM
Age  22 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France AWMM III. C. 138 AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22276024
  Further Reference
• Luxford, J. (1923). With the machine gunners in France and Palestine. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs. Digital copy
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-Mach.html
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/198245/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/198245
  Further Reference
• Powles, C.G. (Ed). (1928). History of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914-19. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
  https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20210315175255/http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1CMRi-t1-body.html
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 27
• 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
• Information kindly provided by family
• Powles, C.G. (Ed). (1928). History of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914-19. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Luxford, J. (1923). With the machine gunners in France and Palestine. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• The Surcingle : official organ of the Silent Sixth Rfcts, New Zealand Expdy Force. [At sea] : [Magazine Committee], 1915.