Arthur Bailey and Colleagues
Title
Arthur Bailey and Colleagues
Description
Seven photographs and three newspaper cuttings from an album. A eighth photograph is behind one of the cuttings.
#1 is four airmen, two in flying kit, leaning on a car.
#2 is Arthur and a woman standing in a garden.
#3 is seven airmen standing under the front of a Halifax.
#4 is four airmen leaning on a car.
#5 is seven airmen sitting on a grassy bank.
#6 is seven airmen grouped in front of a brick wall.
#7 is three airmen in flying kit.
#8 is seven airmen sitting on grass.
#9 is a newspaper cutting reporting that Arthur has been killed.
#10 is a cutting reporting Arthur has been killed.
#11 is a cutting with some more detail about Arthur's life.
#1 is four airmen, two in flying kit, leaning on a car.
#2 is Arthur and a woman standing in a garden.
#3 is seven airmen standing under the front of a Halifax.
#4 is four airmen leaning on a car.
#5 is seven airmen sitting on a grassy bank.
#6 is seven airmen grouped in front of a brick wall.
#7 is three airmen in flying kit.
#8 is seven airmen sitting on grass.
#9 is a newspaper cutting reporting that Arthur has been killed.
#10 is a cutting reporting Arthur has been killed.
#11 is a cutting with some more detail about Arthur's life.
Language
Format
Eight b/w photographs and three newspaper cuttings
Publisher
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Contributor
Identifier
PBaileyAW19010002, PBaileyAW19010003
Transcription
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After taking part in some 30 operational flights, including Berlin, Pilot Officer Arthur Bailey (22), Pentyre-avenue, has been killed on active service.
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FOR KING AND COUNT[missing letters]
BAILEY. – In profound and loving memory Pilot Officer Arthur Wilfred Bailey, aged [missing numbers] years, who was killed on active service [missing word] September.
Memories are our only treasure.
Of happy days when we were all toget[missing letters]
– From his Mother and Father, Sister Brother, 27, Pentyre-avenue, N.18.
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PILOT-OFFICER KILLED
Following 29 Operational Flights
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After taking part in 29 operational flights, including Berlin, Pilot-Officer Arthur Wilfred Bailey, whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.G. Bailey, live at Pentyre-avenue, Weir Hall, Edmonton, has been killed on active service.
Pilot-Officer Bailey, aged 22, was married and leaves a son aged 16 months. Mrs Bailey lives at St. Albans and he was buried there following a service at the Abbey. In pre-war days he was in the accountants’ department of a firm of London brewers. He was with the R.A.F.V.R., mobilised when war broke out and rose from A/C 2 to pilot-officer. Born at Foyle-road, Tottenham, he was an old boy of Down Lane Central School which he represented at football.
His parents have a younger son also in the R.A.F.
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After taking part in some 30 operational flights, including Berlin, Pilot Officer Arthur Bailey (22), Pentyre-avenue, has been killed on active service.
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FOR KING AND COUNT[missing letters]
BAILEY. – In profound and loving memory Pilot Officer Arthur Wilfred Bailey, aged [missing numbers] years, who was killed on active service [missing word] September.
Memories are our only treasure.
Of happy days when we were all toget[missing letters]
– From his Mother and Father, Sister Brother, 27, Pentyre-avenue, N.18.
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PILOT-OFFICER KILLED
Following 29 Operational Flights
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After taking part in 29 operational flights, including Berlin, Pilot-Officer Arthur Wilfred Bailey, whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.G. Bailey, live at Pentyre-avenue, Weir Hall, Edmonton, has been killed on active service.
Pilot-Officer Bailey, aged 22, was married and leaves a son aged 16 months. Mrs Bailey lives at St. Albans and he was buried there following a service at the Abbey. In pre-war days he was in the accountants’ department of a firm of London brewers. He was with the R.A.F.V.R., mobilised when war broke out and rose from A/C 2 to pilot-officer. Born at Foyle-road, Tottenham, he was an old boy of Down Lane Central School which he represented at football.
His parents have a younger son also in the R.A.F.
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Collection
Citation
“Arthur Bailey and Colleagues,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed October 9, 2026, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/45162.