Frank Bailey

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Malster
• Baptism: 5 Aug 1864, Frome, Somerset, England, UK; Address:
  St. John the Baptist Church, Frome, Somerset, England, UK

Frank married Fanny Parfitt in 1890 in Frome, Somerset, England, UK. Fanny (daughter of William Parfitt and Sarah Singer) was born in 1869 in Chapmanslade, Wiltshire, England, UK; died in 1952. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Herbert J. Rogers in 1916 in Frome, Somerset, England, UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military Service: Royal Navy
• Baptism: 7 Nov 1897, Frome, Somerset, England, UK; Address:
  Christchurch, Frome, Somerset, England, UK

William married Ethel Emily Crockford on 19 Feb 1925. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 7 Nov 1897, Frome, Somerset, England, UK; Address:
  Christchurch, Frome, Somerset, England, UK

Hilda married George Albert Victor MacArthur on 31 Dec 1925 in Frome, Somerset, England, UK. George was born in 1897; died on 27 Aug 1973. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military Service: Royal Air Force

Notes:

Died:
Frome Hero in Flying Boat Accident

Sorrow has been brought to several West Country homes by the Sicilian disaster to the RAF flying boat, which crashed on a mountain with the loss of nine lives on February 15th. One of the victims is Corporal Stephen Thomas Bailey, who belonged to Frome, and has relatives in Bath.

He was 29. Twelve years ago he plunged into the swollen river Frome and saved a child from drowning, afterwards restoring it to consciousness by the use of artificial respiration. His pluck was recognised by the Royal Humane Society and by the people of Frome, who presented him with a monetary testimonial.

Bailey, who was then a Territorial learned his life saving under Mr C. Ivor Young now chairman of the local urban council. He had been looking forward to the experience of being a member of the flying boat crew.

Corp. Stephen Thomas Bailey, one of the victims was the 29 year old son of the late Frank Bailey, and of Mrs Short, of 11 Willow Vale Frome.

He was one of a family of nine, and was the fourth son.

Very well known in the town of his birth, he was a local hero for 12 years ago he plunged into the flooded river Frome at Willow Vale and rescued a child named Dennis from drowning. For his gallant act he was awarded the Life-Saving Certificate of the Royal Humane Society, and the townspeople presented him with a suitably inscribed gold watch.

One of his sisters is Mrs H J Rogers, wife of the licencee of Fuller's Wine Vaults, Quiet St, Bath. A representative of this paper saw Mr Rogers' daughter at Quiet Street on Saturday. My uncle came to Bath a fortnight before he left England on Jan 15th she said. We heard the tragic news over the wireless at 9.30 on Friday and at once got in touch with the Frome Police. We knew that he was in the flying boat concerned. 'My uncle was engaged to marry a London girl'

Mr Bailey had resided in Frome all his life. He went to the Wesleyan Boys School and on leaving worked for Mr Ivor Young, who is now the Chairman of the Frome Urban Council before joining the RAF. Last year he was among the members of the RAF who accompanied Sir Philip Sassoon to Alexandria in Egypt. He came home on leave and spent Christmas with his family in Frome.

A 19 year old brother who works for Mr John Lewis the Frome butcher lives with his mother at Willow Vale. When he was living in Frome Corporal Bailey was a great swimmer and was a member of the Frome Swimming Club.

Family/Spouse: Edward J. Stevens. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Edwin C. Thatcher. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margaret Elsie Jones. Margaret (daughter of Samuel Ernest Jones and Elsie Rosina Bletso) was born on 2 Feb 1929; died in 1995 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Simon L. Hankinson. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Guy Frost. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]