GALLIPOLI APRIL 25TH 1915
JANUARY 8TH 1916
FRANCE MARCH 1916
FEBRUARY 28TH 1917

MAJOR GUY HORSMAN BAILEY

ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY

28TH FEBRUARY 1917 AGE 25

BURIED: GUARDS CEMETERY COMBLES, FRANCE


Major Guy Horsman Bailey's father, Colonel Edward Horsman Bailey, encapsulated his son's military career on his headstone inscription. Guy Bailey took part in the Gallipoli landings on 25 April 1915, the first day of the campaign, and served there until the last Allied troops were withdrawn on 8 January 1916, the very last day of the campaign. He went to France in March 1916 and was killed nearly a year later on 28 February 1917. Peter Bell, on the Bledington War Memorial site, offers additional information:
"He was hit in the side by a piece of shrapnel from an airburst shell as he ran to the gunpits from his dugout to retaliate to the German shell fire. He was carried back to the dugout and attended by the doctor but he died about half an hour later."