BAILIE

Cyril Philip

[Listed as BAILLIE on memoria] Pilot Officer (Pilot) 155786, 75 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Bomber Command. Killed in action flying out of Mepal, Cambridgeshirein a Short Stirling III, serial number EH928, when the aircraft was shot down by a night fighter into the North Sea 15 miles northwest of Terschelling during a raid on Hamburg, 3 August 1943, body washed ashore at Haurvig. Aged 21. Native of Allestree, Derbyshire. Born 21 February 1922. Son of Matthias Godard Anthony and Matilda Blanche Bailie, of Allestree, Derby. In the 1939 Register he was the son of Matthias G and Blanche M Bailie, single, a Bank Clerk, resident Park View, Ypres Road, Allestree, Derby, Belper R.D., Derbyshire. Buried in LEMVIG CEMETERY, Denmark. Grave 715.

Extract from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1945:

BAILIE Cyril Philip of Park View Ypres-road Allestree Derbyshire died on or since 3 August 1943 on war service Probate Nottingham 26 February to Matthias Godard Bailie private tutor.
Effects £315 3s.