| Date of birth | |
| Place of birth | Brisbane, Queensland |
| Religion | Church of England |
| Occupation | Clerk |
| Address | Sanchill Hall, Grey Street, South Brisbane, Queensland |
| Marital status | Single |
| Age at embarkation | 22 |
| Height | 5' 5.25"` |
| Weight | 116 lbs |
| Next of kin | Mother, Mrs S Bailey, Sanchill Hall, Grey Street, South Brisbane, Queensland |
| Previous military service | Served for 2 years in the Senior Cadets; 3 years in the Queensland Rifles, Citizens Military Force. |
| Enlistment date | |
| Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll | |
| Place of enlistment | Brisbane, Queensland |
| Rank on enlistment | 2nd Lieutenant |
| Unit name | 9th Battalion, 20th Reinforcement |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/26/4 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Brisbane, Queensland, on board HMAT A46 Clan Mcgillivray on |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Lieutenant |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 9th Battalion |
| Other details from Roll of Honour Circular | Enlisted 13 Sepember 1915 and posted to 9th Bn, 20th Reinforcements. Taken on strength, 9th Bn, 6 March 1917. Commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant, 24 March 1916; as Lieutenant, 3 April 1917. |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Place of death or wounding | Passchendaele, Ypres, Belgium |
| Date of death | |
| Place of burial | No known grave |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 17), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
| Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 55 |
| Other details |
War service: Western Front Embarked Brisbane, 7 September 1916; disembarked Plymouth, England, 2 November 1916. Admitted to Military Hospital, Devonport, 3 November 1916 (synovitis, right knee); marched in to No 2 Command Depot, Weymouth, from hospital, 18 November 1916. Proceeded overseas to France from 3rd Training Bn, 24 February 1917; takren on strength, 9th Bn, in the field, 6 March 1917. Admitted to 1st Australian Field Ambulance, 10 March 1917 (venereal disease: gonorrhoea), and transferred to 1/1 South Midland Division Casualty Clearing Station; to 8th General Hospital, Rouen, 11 March 1917 (gonorrhoea: slight); to 39th General Hospital, Havre, 12 March 1917; discharged to duty, 24 April 1917; total period of treatment for venereal disease: 46 days. Promoted Lieutenant, 3 April 1917. Rejoined Bn, in the field, 7 May 1917. Detached to Corps School, 25 August 1917; rejoined Bn, in the field, 1 October 1917. Killed in action, Belgium, 3 November 1917. Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal |
| Sources | NAA: B2455, BAILEY Daniel McGuiness Wilson |
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