PL - Charles George Gordon Bayly KIA

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Bayly, Charles George Gordon The Mons Star (Lieutenant)

Killed in Action 1914-August-22

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Birth Date: unkown date (age 23)

Born: Rondebosch, Cape Colony, South Africa

Brackenbury Bayly & Beatrice Mary Jessie Bayly

unmarried

Home: Rondebosch, Cape Colony, S.A.

Enlistment: London, England

Enlistment Date: 1911-08-01

Decorations: The Mons Star

Service
RFC

Unit
5 Sqn- Squadron (RFC)

Rank

Position
observer

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Bayly was educated at the Diocesan College School in Rondebosch; the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, London and St Paul's School at Hammersmith, London. before he enlisted in the RFC. He was killed while on active reconnaissance duty as an observer with the RFC in Belgium, when his aircraft was shot down while flying over the German lines, brought down by the massed rifle fire of the German troops on the roads below them.

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Lieutenant Charles George Gordon Bayly was exhumed and reburied.

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Rondebosch, Cape Colony, S.A.

First Burial
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Labliau Communal Cemetery, Hainaut, Belgium

Re-Burial
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Tournai Communal Cemetery
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