Captain Arthur Lindsay BAYLY
A Battery, 52nd Brigade Royal Field Artillery

Date of birth: 24th January 1894
Date of death: 15th July 1958

Survived aged 64
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Arthur Lindsay "Tim" Bayly was born at Lima in Peru on the 24th of January 1894 the elder son of James Arthur Bayly, a merchant, and Elizabeth Bayly of Lima and of 62 Old Broad Street in London.

He was educated at Hazelwood School until December 1907 where he was a member of the Cricket XI in 1906 and 1907 and of the Football XI in 1906 and 1907. The school magazine wrote the following on his 1906 cricket season: - "Shapes all over like a good stylish bat, but does not look at the ball. A very nimble, and even brilliant ground field, but has a horror of a ball in the air. A fairly useful bowler."

Of his 1907 cricket season they wrote: - "Also a disappointing bat, despite his average. Plays very stylish cricket when fairly started, and is very severe upon loose bowling. Smart in the field and quite useful as a change bowler."

They wrote the following on his 1906 football season: - "(Inside left) - Rather erratic - at times brilliant in conception and execution alike, at others disappointing in the extreme. He also suffers from an inability to use both feet equally."

Of his 1907 football season they wrote: - "(Centre forward) - "Unreliable; at times brilliant, on other days quite mediocre; prone to fruitless charging, and too fond of coaching and criticising his own side."

On leaving the school the magazine wrote of him: - "....has taken a capital place at Wellington. He will leave a blank in the choir, and in all of the Elevens, which it will be difficult to fill."

He went on to Wellington College where he was in Mr. Rodger’s House from January 1908 to 1910. He was a member of the Officer Training Corps for the three years he was at the school. On leaving school he worked as a merchant and lived at "Underwood", Kingswood, Tadsworth in Surrey.

He enlisted at St John's Wood as Gunner 127004 in the Royal Horse Artillery on the 15th of February 1916. At a medical examination, which was held on the same day, it was recorded that he was five feet ten and a half inches tall and that he weighed 142lbs. He applied for a commission in the Royal Artillery Special Reserve on the 29th of March 1916 and was sent for officer training at the Officer Training Corps at St John's Wood Barracks. He was commissioned as a probationary 2nd Lieutenant in the Special Reserve of Officers for the Royal Artillery on the 7th of July 1916. He embarked for France on the 29th of July 1916 and joined 52nd Brigade Royal Artillery in the field at Bours on the 8th of August 1916 where he was attached to A Battery. He was confirmed in his rank on the 29th of March 1917.

He was married at St Mary Abbot’s Church, Kensington to Mary Sofia (nee Stokes) on the 18th of October 1917. After the war they returned to Peru where he became a merchant and lived at "Eucaliptus", 355 San Isidro in Lima. They had two sons born on the 13th of December 1921 and on the 20th of September 1924 and two daughters, Patricia Elizabeth Mary and Susan Mary.

He was posted to D (Howitzer) Battery on the 5th of February 1918 and returned to A Battery on the 23rd of July 1918. He was promoted to Lieutenant on the 11th of May 1918 and to Acting Captain on the 13th of January 1919.

He returned to England from Boulogne for two weeks leave from the 19th of October 1918. On the 28th of March 1919 he and 2nd Lieutenant R.G. Willcock were acquitted of the charge of "stealing public goods" at Ecaussine in Belgium. He was demobilized at No. 1 Dispersal Unit at Crystal Palace on the 6th of April 1919 and he resigned his commission on the 1st of April 1920.

His brother, Lieutenant Charles Ramsay Bayly 128th Battery, 29th Brigade, Royal Artillery, was killed in action on the 28th of March 1918.

He died suddenly at Lima.
Went on to Wellington College

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