History while in the forces
10 Feb 1916: joined Queen's Westminster Rifles and went to Winchester for training. Later in the year he was sent to Frinton with a Provisional Battalion and in December 1916 was transferred to the Dorset Regiment under training at BournemouthJan 1917: warned for a Draft for India and we understand is now on his way there
17 Feb 1917: on his way to India and postcard received from Cape Town
23 Mar 1917: arrived in India. Expecting to be drafted to Mesopotamia
- Surname
- Bailey
- Forename
- John Benjamin
- Service number
- 4594
- Rating or rank
- Private
- Regiment or Other Unit
- No. 2 Company, 2nd Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment, [4th Reserve Battalion, A Company]
- Branch
- Coleman Street, London
- Date of Birth
- 06 Dec 1895
- Date of birth
- 1895
- Date of Entering Bank's Service
- 04 Mar 1912
- Date of Joining HM Forces
- 10 Feb 1916
