Robert William Baylis

Robert William Baylis, son of Edward Baylis and Annie Catherine Dowker Sackett, was born in Romford, Essex^G, on 6 January 1897.^1,2 He died aged 47 in Ilford, Essex^G, on 3 December 1944.³ He married in Ilford, Essex^G, on 5 August 1922, Hilda Mary Pickett, daughter of William Frederick Pickett and Emma Zilla Woods.^3,4 Hilda was born in Romford^G on 2 May 1896³ and died aged 91 in Basingstoke, Hampshire^G, on 4 July 1987.³
     Robert Baylis served in the British army during the First World War, being amongst the first wave of volunteers, and enlisting in the 5th Company of City of London Rifles on 31 August 1914 when he gave his age as 18 years and 7 months. He was actually 17 years and 7 months. He was posted to France with the British Expeditionary Force on 16 February 1915, serving there until 1 August 1915.^3,5