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Corporal ERNEST LIONEL BAILEY

Service Number: 2585
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Salvage Corps

Date of Death

Died 17 May 1918

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VIGNACOURT BRITISH CEMETERY

II. D. 15.

France

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  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of James Edward Bailey; husband of Emily Bailey, of "Holmlands," Kayll Rd., Sunderland, England.Born Sydenham, London, England.
  • Personal Inscription TO LIVE IN HEARTS WE LEAVE BEHIND IS NOT TO DIE
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Buried or commemorated at

VIGNACOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 586
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