Orders, Decorations and Medals

British War Medal 1914-20 (203265 Pte. H. E. Bailey, E. Surr. R.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (2) (13466 Pte. J. Holman, E. Surr. R.; 4876 Pte. C. E. Steine, E. Surr. R.), generally very fine (3) £40-50

Harry Ellison Bailey enlisted in the East Surrey Regiment at Chichester in January 1917 and subsequently served in the 1/5th and 1/6th East Surreys, as well as being onetime attached to the 56th Brigade S.A.A.S. (T.N.A. WO 329/206 refers). The 1/6th were embarked for Aden and served in that theatre of war 1917-18. Bailey was demobilised in 1919, when he claimed for a pension for ‘debility’.