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Little History of Cherington and Stourton
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Sergeant Bailey was, as the saying goes, "scythed down" - shot in the leg. He was numbered among the thousands of soldiers who died not because their wound was inevitably mortal, but due to delay in the administering of adequate first aid. In his case it was considerable loss of blood which weakened him fatally. When Harry Bailey enlisted in 1914, the Evesham Journal Roll of Honour published his regiment as the Warwickshire, undoubtedly because as he joined the army at Warwick he initially entered that regiment's ranks. This would seem to account for the caption above. However, he saw active service in the 11th Bn. Royal Hampshires, and his platoon commander's medal roll index entry proves that he too served with them, ultimately rising to acting Major. Alan Wentworth Chadwick was in fact Hampshire-born, son of a clergyman-schoolmaster of Basingstoke: he was just three years Harry Bailey's senior. |
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