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{{Personnel
|id=988
|Surname and forenames=Bailes Thomas
|Army number=4445792
|Rank=Sergeant
|Date of birth=1905/06.
|Age=34
|Unit=Attested 7/1/27 as a Regular Soldier for 7/5 years in The Durham Light Infantry.  Discharged 6/1/39.  Re-enlisted in the 9th Durham Light Infantry on 14/3/39, T, for 4 years.  Posted to ? 12th Bn DLI.  Transferred to the Black Watch 1/2/40, posted 1 TS.  Served BEF.  KILLED in ACTION 20/5/40, Authority R. Casualty.
|Joined Brigade=Probably 1/9/1939.
|Died/Killed in action=20-May-40.
|Home address=Miner.  Stepson of Lucy Bailes, husband of Florence Bailes, Shieldfield.  Buried Sp. Mem. Plot 8. Row C. Grave 14.  Bucquoy Road War Cemetery, Ficheux.
|Image Name=Bailes_T_4445792.JPG
|Image Title=Sgt T Bailes' CWGC headstone.
|Source table=1TS
}}