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John Robert Bayliss

Rifleman

Service No. 552022

Age 24

Died on 20 August 1918

London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles)

BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD

Nord, France

Son of John and Emma Baylis, of 206, Chatham Avenue, Islington, London.

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Karen Packham

We never knew you but your family always remembers your story and your sacrifice.

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Bradley Bayliss

We will remember them. Today, Tomorrow, Forever.

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John, O valiant heart, to whom your glory came. Your memory hallowed in the land you loved. Harry

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Karen Packham

Commemorating John Bayliss, my great-uncle, killed on his way home to England by a stray shell. We shall not forget you.

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My great-uncle John was hit by a stray shell while travelling home through France on leave towards the end of the war. His friend William Bo...

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John, I do not know the precise circumstances of your death, but, as a former soldier in the 1st and the 7th Royal Warwickshire Regiment an...

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