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22-07-2008, 09:43 PM
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You're Top Poster: #9   | D Day Fatality Hi Can anyone help? My great niece has just returned from a school trip to France, during which they were taken to Bayeux Cemetery. She found the headstone of a lad sharing both her surname and county and has asked me if I can find out more about him. I searched CWGC site and have located:- Stanley N Bayliss Able Seaman Aged 19 Died on 06.06.1944 (D Day) H.M.L.C.A. 524 - what does this mean? Son of Ernest and Isabella Bayliss from Minster Lovell Oxfordshire (spooky my Great Grandmother's name too) Is there anyway I can find out what ship he was on or any more information period? Thanks in anticipation.
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22-07-2008, 10:01 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1  | H.M.L.C.A. = His Majesty's Landing Craft Assault. These were the small boats that landed soldiers on the beaches. I don't know which beach he landed troops on but will have a look. He is the only one listed for this boat though it usually had a crew of 4.  Landing Craft Assault (LCA) - Histoire, fiche technique et photo
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22-07-2008, 10:51 PM
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You're Top Poster: #50 | LCAs were often carried on the davits of larger ships, then lowered into the sea - see this photo http://www.junobeach.org/e/4/img/PA-141525lg.jpg. Matt
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22-07-2008, 11:10 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | Found him. Bayliss is mentioned in the first paragraph of the Post D-Day section: New Page 1 You may have star Nana 
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22-07-2008, 11:23 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | And as the aboves site states that they only lost one sailor killed then this sounds like him Quote:
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22-07-2008, 11:50 PM
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You're Top Poster: #9 | How sad! Kyt thanks yet again for your help. I'm sure that my great niece will be amazed that you have been able to find out anything. Thanks to Matt too - nothing would have got me on that LCA!
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23-07-2008, 11:40 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3  | Well done Kyt. Another great result for the archivist.
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