War grave of R.N.M. Bailey

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• Title: Photograph of the war grave of R.N.M. Bailey
• Date: 1918
• Catalogue number: Parliamentary Archives, BAI/12
• Description:

  Robert Neale Menteith Bailey was a clerk in the Committee Office of the House of Commons.  He was friends with William Leveson-Gower, a clerk in the House of Lords who also served in the First World War.  Bailey was sent to Egypt and Palestine where he died of wounds received in action on 1 December 1917. 

  The Papers of R.N.M. Bailey chiefly consist of letters between himself and his sister.  The photographs of his grave were sent to the family by a hospital in Cairo.