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War Memorial
Australia

Son of Henry Vincent BAYLY and Harriet Louisa nee BAYLEY, Runnymede, Newtown, Hobart, Tasmania

Husband of Helen Jane Gray nee HOOPER

OBITUARY
LATE MR. JAMES B. BAYLY.
The brief cabled announcement in "The Mercury" yesterday of the death, after a short illness, of James Bayley Bayly, at the age of 33 years, caused  sadness in a number of homes in Hobart, where Mr. Bayly was born and educated, and very well known before his departure for England three years  ago. The late Mr. Bayly was the elder son of Mrs. and the late H. V. Bayly, of Runnymede, New Town, and was educated at Clemes College (then Leslie House School), afterwards being employed for a while in the Lands and Surveys Department, Hobart. In the war he served with the 12th Battalion, the  first contingent to leave Tasmania (October, 1914), proceeding to Egypt and Gallipoli, but was at the time of the famous evacuation on leave at Lemnos.
He saw service in France, and there contracted rheumatic fever, which permanently affected his health, and has now very probably caused his death.
Sent to England, he was invalided home in 1917 on a hospital ship, and, recovering some measure of health, took up studies at the Melbourne  University. Ill-health, the result of his war service, compelled him to abandon this course, whereupon he entered upon another in Sydney, but again  broke down, and this time returned to Hobart. He was articled in the architects' office of Messrs. Hutchison and Walker, and spent some years in that  occupation, being keenly interested in town-planning and civic architecture. He was the prime mover in the formation of the New Town Progress  Association, and was its vice-president for about three years. For a short time also he was secretary to the Southern Tasmanian Town Planning Association, this subject engrossing all his attention during the period. In 1925 the late Mr. Bayly left for England to pursue his studies in town planning  and civic architecture, In which he showed much brilliance, and obtained a position in the office of Mr. Davridge, who was the principal adviser to Mr. Lloyd George in the Greater London Scheme. In connection with this scheme he was then appointed to a position at Bushey, Hertfordshire, which he  occupied until his death. In October, 1926, he married Miss Helen Hooper, and they had at the time of his death been living at Bushey for two years  and a half. No details have as yet been received by the relatives of Mr. Bayly in Hobart, but it is considered that it must have been the result of his war  service, his health having been very poor since his return in 1917. The late Mr. Bayly's relatives in Tasmania are his mother, residing at New Town;  brother, Mr. Harry Bayly, at Campbell Town and five sisters, one of whom is Mrs Erskine Watchorn wife of the well- known solicitor of Hobart.