In Memory Of
BAYLY, CHARLES GEORGE GORDON
Service Details
Age:
23
Date of Birth:
1891-05-30
Rank:
Lieutenant
Unit:
5th Sqdn.
Unit 2:
and 56th Field Coy. Royal Engineers
Regiment:
Royal Flying Corps
Date of Death:
1914-08-22
Cause of Death:
Killed in action, 2nd Lt Vincent WATERFALL and Lt Charles George Gordon BAYLY, 5 Sqn. Took off at 10:16 and at around 10:50 the pair was over the Enghien-Soignies area. Their Avro was hit by enemy ground fire and crashed by the side of the Ath-Enghien road, both occupants being killed. They were the first allied airmen to be shot down and killed in Belgium.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
III. G. 3.
Cemetery:
TOURNAI COMMUNAL CEMETERY ALLIED EXTENSION
Localitly:
Tournai, Hainaut
Country:
Belgium
Additional Information
Son of Brackenbury Bayly, M.I.E.E. (Woolwich) and Beatrice Mary Jessie Bayly, of Falmouth, Cornwall. (One of the first Royal Flying Corps battle casualties of the war). Native of Cape Town, South Africa.
