Sgt/Major William Bailey

[Bobusa]

Hello to all:
Thank you for accepting me to the group and allowing me to research my Great Grandfather Sgt/Major William Bailey. He was involved in The Boer War and The Great War. He had three sons who were all killed in the Great War. I'm trying to find out as much and any information as possible. Seems like a logical place to begin.

Thank You,
Bobusa

[mack]

hiya bob
type in 2910 bailey in the search box,this is the number of his son jack,it will take you to a thread that we put togethor some years ago,theres a photo of all three boys of the legendary sgt/major bailey,he was the recruiting sgt at oldham,he signed all three of his sons up
if you use the service numbers of the bailey boys plus surname in the search box,it will take you to different posts scattered around our forum,number are 2910 jack bailey.  2052 alfred bailey.  9302 charles,william bailey

also,you will find one of your relatives[his great grandson]

mack

[Timberman]

 
The post I did is for the wrong William Bailey so I've removed it.

One of the links that Mack said. Just click on the link.

  https://themanchesters.org/forum/index.php?topic=1486.msg10187#msg10187

and this one

https://themanchesters.org/forum/index.php?topic=127.msg983#msg983

Bit on William in the The Boer War section.

https://themanchesters.org/forum/index.php?topic=130.0

Timberman

[mack]

nice one neil

mack

[Timberman]

Mack it's thanks to you for pointing me in the right direction.
I really must remember to use the search facility.
neil

[Bobusa]

Thank you very much Mack. So helpful.
Bob

[mack]

bob
sgt/major bailey and his wife phoebe are buried togethor in chadderton cemetery.section N2.grave 71,along with their oldest son frank who died age 2 weeks and their grandson wallace garside who died in infancy in november 1914,the son of his daughter eveline

mack

[Bobusa]

Thank You again Mack. I'm passing all this information on to my family members. We are all extremely interested.

[mack]

hiya bob
his service record


pte 1873 william bailey
2nd royal cheshire militia
occupation.baker
resided 100 prince st,macclesfield
mother emma

regular army service.
pte 2883 william bailey
7-11-1878 enlisted in the 96th foot[2nd manchester regt]at salford at 10-05 o,clock
served home service till 11-1-1881
served in 1st anglo boer war 11-11-1881 till 11-11-1882
home service 12-1-1882
army reserve 1-12-1884
20-4-1884 posted to king liverpool regimental depot.promoted lance corporal 5-9-1885,corporal 20-4-1886,lance sergeant 25-2-1888,sergeant 16-3-1889
married phoebe dickinson at warrington 8-10-1889
11-5-1890 transferred to 4th manchester regiment
5-8-1898 passed a course of small arms instruction at birmingham small arms factory
served in 2nd anglo boer war 23-3-1901 till 24-6-1902
15-1-1902 promoted colour sergeant 6th volunteer battalion manchester regiment,promoted regimental sergeant major 5-2-1906
discharged 31-3-1907 after 28yrs 144 days service
WW1 became recruiting sergeant at the swan hotel oldham

children
frank,died in infancy
charles william.killed WW1
eveline garside died rhode island 1928,her husband wallace served as corporal 2599 wallace garside.1/10th manchester regiment
alfred,lawrence,killed WW1
beatrice,ella whyatt,her husband wilfred served in the royal navy in WW1 and died 19-12-1941 in 24th london general hospital,belfast of leukemia while serving on HMS sabre[destroyer]in 1940 she helped to lift men from the beaches at dunkirk
jack.killed WW1
lilian
matilda horridge,possibly emigrated to rhode island 1923 with her husband james

sgt/major bailey died on 20-7-1928
resided with his daughter ella whyatt,141 radcliffe st,oldham

mack

[Bobusa]

Wow. So much information. We were aware of some of it, but most of it we are hearing for the first time.
Thank You so much Mack.