A JERSEYMAN awarded the Military Cross in 1918, and who is buried in St Saviour’s churchyard, is at last to be recognised by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

The recognition of Captain Alwin Claydon Bailey, who served in the East Lancashire Regiment, and who died aged 28, in 1920, is thanks to the dedicated research of Barrie Bertram, of the CI Great War Study Group.

He made an appeal through the JEP for information about this servicemen and a number of others, some of whom had not been recognised for their service.

After making contact with the Commission, he received a letter in the case of Captain Alwin Claydon Bailey, from Maria Choules, of the their record section.

‘I am writing with reference to my letter regarding the non commemoration of Captain Bailey,’ she said. ‘You will be pleased to hear that the Ministry of Defence have now approved his commemoration.’

Arrangements have since begin for the grave to be inspected and surveyed.

Mr Bertram is still seeking information about servicemen Garnet Burton, Herbert Cudlipp and Walter Martin, although the latter’s name has been recognised.

He has also started looking at a number of Royal Navy men that Jersey’s Roll of Honour listed as having died during the Great War but who are not commemorated by the CWGC.

‘Their Naval records (extracted at Kew) show them being invalided out but some of the gaps between leaving the RN and dying look decidedly odd ,’ he said.

The names of those he is seeking information on are: Samuel WT Lindsey: Invalided 9 June 1910 with appendicitis, killed 29 May, 1917; John Breban, invalided 9 December, 1914, died 8 May, 1917; William Alliston Turner, invalided 19 March 1915 with neurasthenia; Thomas Peter Ounan, invalided 30 August, 1916, with pulmonary tuberculosis, died 6 October, 1917.