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Military service
Service number:
B/88063
Age:
35
Rank:
Staff Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps
Division:
2 Army Field Workshop
Birth:
January 30, 1905
Darlaston, Staffordshire, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
November 10, 1939
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
July 6, 1940
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
3. N. 6.
Additional information
Son of William and Beatrice Bailey; husband of Esther Bailey, of Toronto, ON.
Digital gallery of Staff Sergeant John Francis Bailey
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Grave Marker
Photo donated by The Commonwealth Roll of Honour Project -
Memorial Plaque
This memorial plaque, located in the Old City Hall in Toronto, Ontario, commemorates the deaths, on July 6, 1940, of Staff Sergeant JOHN FRANCIS BAILEY, Squadron Quartermaster Serjeant (WO.II) ROBERT THOMAS KNOX, and Private LESLIE HERBERT SWORD, all of 2 Army Field Workshop, Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps. They were the first Canadian casualties due to enemy action in the United Kingdom in the Second World War. -
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Staff Sergeant JOHN FRANCIS BAILEY, Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant (WO.II) ROBERT THOMAS KNOX, and Private LESLIE HERBERT SWORD, all of 2 Army Field Workshop, Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps, who were killed on July 6, 1940, were the first Canadian casualties due to enemy action in the United Kingdom in the Second World War. Their deaths brought the number of deaths in the Canadain Active Service Force Overseas to 29 according to the 8th casualty list of the National Defense Department published in the Globe and Mail on July 9, 1940. The others presumably died in circumstances not related to enemy action in the United Kingdom. -
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Temporary Grave Marker
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Star July 1940. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Star July 1940. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Star July 1940. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Star November 10th 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Telegram July 1940. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Staff Sergeant John Francis Bailey
Digital gallery of
Staff Sergeant John Francis Bailey
Digital gallery of
Staff Sergeant John Francis Bailey
Digital gallery of
Staff Sergeant John Francis Bailey
Digital gallery of
Staff Sergeant John Francis Bailey
Digital gallery of
Staff Sergeant John Francis Bailey
Digital gallery of
Staff Sergeant John Francis Bailey
Digital gallery of
Staff Sergeant John Francis Bailey
Digital gallery of
Staff Sergeant John Francis Bailey
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 10 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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