AMPHLETT Edward Baylie

  • First Name(s):
    Edward 
    Baylie 
  • Surname:
    AMPHLETT
  • Service Number:
    Unknown
  • Rank:

    Captain

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Worcestershire Regiment
  • Battalion:
    12th Battalion
  • Unit:
    attached Royal Fusiliers
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    4th June 1915
  • Age At Death:
    38
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery, Turkey, Special Memorial A. 92.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of John Amphlett, of Clent, Worcestershire. M.A.(Oxon.)

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Captain Edward AMPHLETT served and died in WW1.

AMPHLETT Edward Baylie Is Named On These Memorials

Clent St Leonard’s Church
Clent St Leonard’s Church Amphlett WW1 Memorial

Further Information About AMPHLETT Edward Baylie

The inscription on the plaque reads:
IN MEMORY OF
EDWARD BAYLIE AMPHLETT
YOUNGER SON OF JOHN AND ELIZA ANNE AMPHLETT
M.A. OXFORD POLICE MAGISTRATE GRENADA WEST INDIES
CAPTAIN AND ADJUTANT XII WORCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT
KILLED IN THE DARDANELLES
JUNE 4TH 1915
AGED 38

De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour:
AMPHLETT, EDWARD BAYLIE, M.A., Capt., 12th Battn. Worcestershire Regt. (T.F.), attd. 2nd Battn. Royal Fusiliers, yr. s. of John Amphlett, of Clent, co. Worcester, by his wife, Eliza Anne, only dau. of Edward Biven Baylie, of Stourbridge; b. Clent, 15 Jan. 1877; educ. Marlborough and Worcester College, Oxford, and was called to the Bar, going on the Oxford Circuit. He saw service with Paget’s Horse in South Africa, and in 1912 was appointed Police Magistrate in the island of Grenada, W.I., a post he resigned to volunteer for the war. He was given the temporary rank of Lieut. in Nov. 1914, and was gazetted Capt. on 15. Jan. 1915, when he was also appointed Adjutant. He went out in May, 1915, to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, being attached to the Royal Fusiliers, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 4 June, 1915: unm. He was well-known in musical circles in Worcestershire and Birmingham.

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