John Beets Bales

1897 Mar 28. Born John Beets Bales at Yarmouth

1897 Apr 19 Christened at Yarmouth son of John Beets Bales and Rosa Margeuretta

1901 census living with parents at 3 Queen Sq, Great Yarmouth. His father is a Herring Merchant

1911 census living at 15 Crown Road, Great Yarmouth

Joins the Norfolk Yeomanry and later the RAF.

• 1914 August 1/1st Norfolk Yeomanry moved with the brigade to Woodbridge and came under orders of 1st Mounted Division.
• 1915 Sep 25. dismounted and sailed from Liverpool on SS 'Olympic' for service at Gallipoli.
• 1915 Oct 10: landed at Anzac cove and brigade under orders of 54th (East Anglian) Division.
• 1915 Dec: evacuated from Gallipoli and moved to Egypt.
• 1816 Dec 22. Eastern and Southern Mounted Brigades formed 3rd Dismounted Brigade, on Suez Canal defences.
• 1916 Jul: brigade moves to join Western Frontier Force,
• 1917 Feb 7. formally converted to infantry and became 12th (Norfolk Yeomanry) Battalion of the Norfolk Regiment. Placed under orders of 230th Brigade in 74th (Yeomanry) Division.

1917 Dec 1. Commissioned. The undermentioned to be temp. 2nd Lts: 2nd Cl. Air Mech. John Beets Bales from R.F.C

1918 Jan 20. RAF Military Wing. Temp. 2nd Lts. (on prob.), Gen. List, and to be confirmed in their rank: J. B. Bales. He served in Salonica

1919 Sep 19. RAF. Transferred to unemployed list. it. J. B. Bales. .

1921 Mar 30 Joined ADRIC with service no RIC no 82706, ADRIC no 1876. With P Coy in Sligo.

1921 Apr 23 Bolam and Bales had travelled to Belfast on escort duty. They were ambushed in Belfast at 9pm at the junction of Donegal Place and Fountain Lane. Bolam died at the scene and Bales in hospital the next day.

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