Tribute to Harry Baylis

(killed in Flanders, near Ypres - Tuesday 11th May, 1915)

Watch the
"Last Post"
ceremony at the
Menim Gate, Ypres.

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Harry Baylis

This is the entry taken from the book "National Roll of the Great War" - Birmingham Edition
(which can be found on the 6th Floor of the Birmingham Central Library).

Bayliss H. Private, Royal Warwickshire Regiment

He volunteered in September 1914, and on completing his training in the following year was drafted to France. In this theatre of war he took part in several engagements including the Battle of Neuve Chapelle.
He was killed in action on March 11th, 1915 and was entitled to the 1914-15 Star, and the General Service and Victory medals.

(Note. The above date is incorrect and should be
11th May 1915, not 11th March 1915.)

The above information kindly retrieved by Terry Carter.

The inscription on the top of the Menim Gate Memorial, Ypres (Ieper), Belgium.

To the Armies
of the British Empire
who stood here
from 1914 to 1918
and to those of their dead
who have no known grave

The memorial is to around 55,000 fallen soldiers with no known grave.

Read the poem
"In Flanders Fields"
by John McCrae (1872-1918)

View of Menim Gate, Ieper

Town of Ieper (Ypres), Belgium

Ypres (Ieper) Church

The Menim Gate is beautifully
maintained by the
Commenwealth War Graves Commission.

The "last post" is played
in a very moving ceremony.
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A service is held every evening at the Menim Gate Memorial to remember the fallen soldiers.
It started initially in July 1928 and has been held every night since !929 (excepting during part of WW2).

Memorial panels with the names of the fallen soldiers on the Menim Gate

Panel 8 to the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. (note the name Baylis is mis-spelt)

The WW1 medals awarded to Harry Baylis

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

Poem by John McCrae (1872-1918)

Flanders Fields looking from the Tyne Cot memorial towards Friezenberg and Ypres (Ieper). (photo 2004)

Below is Enos Albert Masters who married Ellen Elizabeth Baylis, the daughter of the late Harry Baylis.

a young Enos Albert Masters

Ronald William Masters

the son of
Enos Albert Masters
and Ellen Baylis