Private Charles Edwin Bailey
Army Number: 3735
Battalion: 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.
Born and lived at Long Bennington, Grantham, Lincolnshire. Son of George and Ruth Bailey, of Gipsy Hall, Long Bennington. He was a farm labourer prior to enlisting on 2nd February 1914. He went to France on 9th February 1915 with the 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. He was killed in action, 3rd September 1916, aged 22, during the attack near Beaumont Hamel, France during the Battle of the Somme with the 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.
Commemorated Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.
Private Charles Edwin Bailey is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Long Bennington War Memorial, Long Bennington, Lincolnshire.