Tag Pompapiel
Archibald was a schoolteacher from Pompapiel when he enlisted to serve in World War One.
When Kenneth Laird enlisted he was 26 and newly married to Mary Laird. Prior to enlisting, he was a farmer at Calivil who was well-known as a talented footballer for the Calivil Football Club and a long-distance runner. He was the fourth son of Donald and Isabell. His late father, Donald Craig Laird had been an East Loddon Shire councillor.
Archibald Douglas Bailey was a brave and skilled soldier who received a distinguished conduct medal for his efforts.
Kate was a matron in charge of several military hospitals, in Egypt and on a hospital ship anchored off the Dardanelles. Whilst overseas, Kate wrote many long letters back home describing the war and what it was like to be a nurse.
“He was one of the finest specimens of young Australian manhood, and a great favourite”
Honour roll location: Pillar 7B Resources: ‘Missing soldiers‘, Bendigonian, 19th October 1916, p. 2