Percy Bailey MM

WWI Roll of Honour

by Lynette Wray

Percy Bailey M.M.

Military History:        

Regiment:                              
Royal Army Medical Corps (British Expeditionary Force)

Rank:
Private

Service Number:                    
512269

Date of Enlisting:                            
9.1914

Date of death:                        

Cemetery/ Memorial:            

UK Cemetery/Memorial:      
St Mary’s Church Ashwell Roll of Honour

Percy enlisted in September 1914. He saw active service with the Royal Army Medical Corps and was awarded a Level 3 Gallantry Medal, which is now held in the Ashwell Museum.

Percy survived the War and returned to Ashwell. 

He is commemorated on the St Mary’s Church Ashwell Roll of Honour.

Family History:

Date of Birth:               
1889

Birth Place:                            
Ashwell, Hertfordshire

Residence:                    
London, Middlesex

Marriage:                     
1935 and 1946

Percy was the fourth son of Frederick John and Fanny Elizabeth (nee Hankin), born in Ashwell in 1888. Percy’s father owned the building company in Ashwell.

He was a pupil at the Merchant Taylor School in Ashwell. 

The 1911 census shows him living with his sister, Fanny, and her husband Jack Allman in Bowes Park, North London.  He was a brewer’s clerk.

It is believed Percy married Frances W Muncey in 1935 and it is believed they had one daughter, Violet A born in 1940.  It appears Percy married again in 1946 to Dorothy R Dobbs but it is not known if they had any children.

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