Rawston Calmady's Story.
Birkenhead News 3rd July 1915Tranmere “Scottie” Killed.
FATHER WHO NEVER SAW HIS CHILD.
The young wife of Private Rawston Ceilius Calmady Bailey, of 11, Green Lane, Lower Tranmere, has received from Fraser Street Depot, the official headquarters of the Liverpool Scottish, news that her husband is another of the Scottish heroes who fell in the gallant charge at Hooge on June 16th.
Private Bailey, who was 25 years of age, and a well-known local footballer, having played for several seasons with the battalion team, was previously employed as a plater in Messrs. Cammell Laird’s, and was shortly to have been transferred home to work on munitions.
He was a newly married man, and a sad feature of the case is that whilst he was on active service, he had become the father of a bonny boy which of course he has never seen.
He has another brother at present serving his country as a sailor somewhere on the seas.
Private Bailey was the eldest son of Mr. R. C. C. and Mrs. Elizabeth Bailey.