James Henry Baylis
(1896-1922)
| Father | James Baylis (1870-1923) |
| Mother | Blanche Edith Sackett (-1959) |
James Henry Baylis, son of James Baylis and Blanche Edith Sackett, was born in Streatham, SurreyG, on 18 August 1896.1,2,3 He died aged 25 in West Ham, EssexG, on 15 February 1922.1,4,5
In 1911 James was living at 4 Ye Market, Selsdon Road, South Croydon, SurreyG, in the household of his parents James and Blanche, and was recorded in the census as James Henry Baylis, an oil and colorman, aged 14 and born in Streatham.6
James served on the Western Front in France as a gunner in the Royal Garrison Artillery during the First World War. He was awarded the Victory Medal (Territorial Force), and the British War Medal.7
In 1911 James was living at 4 Ye Market, Selsdon Road, South Croydon, SurreyG, in the household of his parents James and Blanche, and was recorded in the census as James Henry Baylis, an oil and colorman, aged 14 and born in Streatham.6
James served on the Western Front in France as a gunner in the Royal Garrison Artillery during the First World War. He was awarded the Victory Medal (Territorial Force), and the British War Medal.7
James Henry Baylis and his father, James, travelled to Canada early in 1914 to look at buying land with a view to the family migrating there. When the war broke out they hurried home and James Henry enlisted. He served as a gunner in the front line trenches. The weather was so bad and the conditions so terrible that James started to cough badly. By the time he came home the TB had taken hold and he died of it in 1922.
—Jean Danzelman, daughter of George and Blanche Edith (Baylis) Danzelman, 2012
—Jean Danzelman, daughter of George and Blanche Edith (Baylis) Danzelman, 2012
Notes & Citations
- Email from Sheila Phythian to Chris Sackett, 8 Dec 2010.
- General Register Office, Online Index to Births, "Sep qtr 1896. Baylis, James Henry. Mother: Sackett. Wandsworth. 1d:802."
- Census.
- General Register Office, Online Index to Deaths, "Mar qtr 1922. Baylis, James H, 25. W Ham. 4a:530."
- Email from Sheila Phythian to Chris Sackett, 3 July 2012.
- 1911 England census
RG14, piece 3312, schedule 218
4 Ye Market, Selsdon Rd, South Croydon, Surrey
6 rooms & shop
James Baylis, head, 40, m. 15y, oil & colorman, worker, at home, b. Shadwell, Middlesex
Blanch {ITAL:]sic] Edith Baylis, wife, 39, m. 15y, 6 ch, all living, b. Langford, Oxfordshire
James Henry Baylis, son, 14, oil & colorman, worker, b. Streatham, Surrey
Cyril Edward Baylis, son, 13, b. Streatham, Surrey
Blanche Edith Baylis, dau, 10, b. Streatham, Surrey
Hilda May Baylis, dau, 8, b. Streatham, Surrey
Winifred Ire {ITAL:]sic] Baylis, dau, 7, b. Croydon, Surrey
Elsie Lilian Baylis, dau, 3, b. Croydon, Surrey. - National Archives, "British Army World War I medal rolls index cards" (Ancestry image), "Baylis, James H, RGA, gnr, regtl no 340244, medals: Victory (TF) RGA/114B, p. 1338; British [medal]."
| Appears in | Sacketts in the Military |
| Sackett line | 9th great-grandson of Thomas Sackett the elder of St Peter in Thanet |
| Charts | Descendants of Benjamin Sackett |
| Generation.Tree | R.3 |
| Last Edited | 30 Aug 2019 |
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