BAILEY, Edward, Pte.

BAILEY, Edward, 1729, Private. M.M.

8^th Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers.

He was born in 1878 at Darlaston S Staffs.

He enlisted at Doncaster, Yorkshire.

Edward married H. M. ?

He first landed in France on the 19^th December 1915.

He was killed in action on the 19^th July 1916 aged 38.

He was awarded the Military Medal.

He is buried in Plot I. C. 10. Mazingarbe Communal Cemetery Extension, France.

His widow had the following inscribed on his headstone.

HIS LIFE A BEAUTIFUL MEMORY

HIS DEATH A NOBLE ONE

Edward was also entitled to the 1914-15 Star, War Medal and Victory Medal.

NOTES

His address at the time of his death was 15, Queens Crescent, New Edlington, Doncaster, Yorkshire.

His name is also recorded on the War Memorial at Edlington. It would seem that he was a miner at the Yorkshire Main Colliery

PINCHER, Joseph, Pte.

PINCHER. Joseph, 2407, Private.
1st Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers.

Born in Darlaston in 1891 the son of George Henry and Martha Ellen Pincher.

By 1911 he was living in Castleford, Yorkshire.

He enlisted at Castleford, Yorkshire and received the number 17067 in the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Regiment. He was transferred to the R. M. F quite early on as the first time he entered a theatre of war was on the 9th July 1915 at Gallipoli with the Royal Munsters.

He went on to serve in France where he was killed in action on the 30th September 1918.

He was buried in Plot I. C. 15. Anneux British Cemetery, France.

Joseph was entitled to the 1915 Star, War Medal and Victory Medal.

NOTES.

In the 1911 census he is a boarder with Jesse Burrows at 11, Wainwright St, Castleford, Yorkshire.
Joseph Pincher. Boarder (20)

At the time of his death his parents were living at 36, Catherine’s Cross, Darlaston.