Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Captain and Quartermaster J. W. Bayliss, South Irish Horse, late Life Guards and 45th Company Imperial Yeomanry

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (1017 Corpl., 1st .... Gds.) clasp repaired; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (9601 B.S. Major, 45th Coy. Imp. Yeo.); Coronation 1911, silver (Capt. J. W. Bayliss); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small reverse letters (1017 Sq. Q.M. Corp., 1/Life Gds.); Khedive’s Star 1882, reverse inscribed, ‘Corpl. J. W. Bayliss, 1st L.G.’, first pitted, with edge bruising, nearly very fine and better (5) £360-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Medals relating to the Disaster at Lindley on 31 May 1900.

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James William Bayliss was born in Onstone, Chipping Norton, Oxford. Entering the Army he served as a Corporal in the 1st Battalion Life Guards in the Egypt Campaign of 1882 (not entitled to clasp) and later attained the rank of Squadron Quartermaster Corporal. Later he served as the R.S.M. of the 45th Company 13th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa. Was slightly wounded in action near Lindley, 27 May 1900 (not listed in published roll). Discharged at his own request ‘from further service in connection with the war in South Africa’ on 10 July 1901. Appointed an Honorary Lieutenant in the Army on 7 February 1903, he was appointed Quartermaster and Honorary Captain in the South of Ireland Imperial Yeomanry/South Irish Horse on 13 June 1903. Captain Bayliss was employed as ‘State Porter, Lower Castle Yard, Dublin Castle’, 1909-22.

With copied research and copied group photograph which includes Bayliss.