James Bailey
1st Suffolk Regiment
Fought and died in the Boer War South Africa age 29
James was born in Harston and baptised there on 2 July 1871. He was the fifth of the eleven children born to farm labourer George Bailey and his wife Eliza and he grew up in Harston and then Fen Ditton. He worked as a labourer before enlisting in the army on 8 June 1889. Once discharged, he worked for the Star Brewery Company in Cambridge as a drayman and served as a reservist in the Suffolk Regiment. James died at 95 Sturton Street, Cambridge on 2 October 1900, having recently returned from South Africa and was buried at Mill Road Cemetery on 5 October 1900.
1st Suffolk Regiment
Fought and died in the Boer War South Africa age 29
James was born in Harston and baptised there on 2 July 1871. He was the fifth of the eleven children born to farm labourer George Bailey and his wife Eliza and he grew up in Harston and then Fen Ditton. He worked as a labourer before enlisting in the army on 8 June 1889. Once discharged, he worked for the Star Brewery Company in Cambridge as a drayman and served as a reservist in the Suffolk Regiment. James died at 95 Sturton Street, Cambridge on 2 October 1900, having recently returned from South Africa and was buried at Mill Road Cemetery on 5 October 1900.
James Bailey
1st Suffolk Regiment
Fought and died in the Boer War South Africa age 29
James was born in Harston and baptised there on 2 July 1871. He was the fifth of the eleven children born to farm labourer George Bailey and his wife Eliza and he grew up in Harston and then Fen Ditton. He worked as a labourer before enlisting in the army on 8 June 1889. Once discharged, he worked for the Star Brewery Company in Cambridge as a drayman and served as a reservist in the Suffolk Regiment. James died at 95 Sturton Street, Cambridge on 2 October 1900, having recently returned from South Africa and was buried at Mill Road Cemetery on 5 October 1900.
1st Suffolk Regiment
Fought and died in the Boer War South Africa age 29
James was born in Harston and baptised there on 2 July 1871. He was the fifth of the eleven children born to farm labourer George Bailey and his wife Eliza and he grew up in Harston and then Fen Ditton. He worked as a labourer before enlisting in the army on 8 June 1889. Once discharged, he worked for the Star Brewery Company in Cambridge as a drayman and served as a reservist in the Suffolk Regiment. James died at 95 Sturton Street, Cambridge on 2 October 1900, having recently returned from South Africa and was buried at Mill Road Cemetery on 5 October 1900.
Inscription
"His life was but a battle and a march
and like the wind's blast never resting
He stormed across the wave-convulsed earth."
R. I. P.
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