| Captain Frederick Baylay of the Royal Engineers in a cabinet photograph taken sometime around 1893. Frederick Baylay was born on 6 February, 1865 in Dublin, Ireland the son of Frederick George Baylay of the Royal Artillery and Ann Louisa Murray. He was commissioned a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 5 July 1884. At the time of his appointment he was assigned to the Submarine Mining Service in Rangoon. Captain - 1 April 1893 Instructor, School of Military Engineering - 30 January 1901 Major - 13 August 1901 Lieutenant Colonel - 9 June 1909 Colonel (local rank) while commanding the North Eastern Coastal Defences - 22 June 1912 Colonel - 9 June 1914 Half Pay (due to ill-health) - 25 March 1915 Headquarters - 28 April 1916 Retires (retired pay) - 28 June 1919 Honorary Brigadier General - 28 June 1919 Baylay was appointed to the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for war services on 3 June 1919. Frederick Baylay was married to Marion Kirkpatrick. They had at least two children, a son, George Frederick Baylay was as a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers was killed in action on 23 March 1918, and a daughter Jean Hamilton Baylay. Baylay was also a member of the Kipling Society and an Associate of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. Cabinet Photograph Army & Navy C.S. Ltd. Auxillary - Photographer Francis Street, Westminster, England c. 1893 |
| Above: Frederick Baylay in an oval trimmed cabinet photograph. He is wearing civilian clothes and is identified on the reverse in pencil as "Major Baylay" which would date the photograph to between 1901 and 1909. |
