Leo Joseph Bailey Bailey Leo Joseph Leetonia, Pennsylvania World War, 1914-1918 Army Company M, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Division; Prisoner of War Escort Company 85, Army Service Corps Sergeant Fort Slocum, New York; Syracuse, New York; France Unknown veteran "My twenty-third birthday occurs next week. Despite your two additional years, you may yet outlive me." (Letter to sister, 11/22/1917) Leo Joseph Bailey was wounded at Belleau Wood while diving for his dugout during an artillery attack, and would spend two months recuperating in various hospitals. Despite his injury, he later looked back fondly on this period. In his memoir, he recalled sleeping in a bed for the first time in nearly a year, and awaking to clean linens and a hearty breakfast as "the ideal life of a soldier's dreams," even if his days were punctuated by the daily dressing of wounds. After several months, he was classified as fit for light duty behind the lines and transferred to Prisoner of War Escort Company 85. Leo Bailey in uniform, Westdale, NY [7/1917] An image of Louis Van Iersel (right) standing next to E. B. Evans (a.k.a. Elias Bumbaroff) of Company M, 9th Infantry, wearing their Army uniforms, Soulacourt, Haute-Marne, France 1917-1918 A village in which Company M, 9th Infantry Regiment was stationed 4/1918 A monument to people killed from Coupru during World War I, Coupru, France 1918 Part of the wall of La Mothe in Soulaucourt-sur-Mouzon where the 9th Infantry trained, France 1917-1918 Images of the monument of La Mothe, Soulaucourt-sur-Mouzon, France 1918 Images of the monument of La Mothe, Soulaucourt-sur-Mouzon, France 1918 People gathered around a triumphal arch for the soldiers of the 20th Regiment of infantry, Châteauroux, France 1919 People lining the side of a road on which is a triumphal arch for the soldiers of the 20th Regiment of infantry, Châteauroux, France 1919 Soldiers marching in formation on a road in Châteauroux, France 1919 Bailey wearing his Army uniform and standing outside next to Germaine Jeannoit, Chaumont, France 5/1919 Ten soldiers of the Prisoner of War Escort Company 85 posing outside with their quarters in the background, Ile-sur-Fille, France 8/1919 Bailey (left) and two other soldiers posing together outside, Ile-sur-Fille, France 8/1919 A French nurse standing outside, Ile-sur-Fille, France 8/1919 A French and Germany cemetery near Reims, France 1919 A black and white portrait of Bailey wearing his Army uniform on leave in Paris, France 4/1919 A color image of Bailey kneeling at the grave site of John Thomas in the cemetery at Fère-en-Tardenois, France 1968 A color portrait of Bailey standing outside wearing his Army uniform on Memorial Day 5/1987 A color image of Margaret Bailey Redmond holding her father's memoir with the her transcribed version 2010 Memoir and scrapbook: "The War As I Saw It" by Leo J. Bailey Memoir and scrapbook: "The War As I Saw It" by Leo J. Bailey Transcript of original letters, "Letters Home from Leo J. Bailey, World War I in France." Transcript of original letters, "Letters Home from Leo J. Bailey, World War I in France." Letter from Leo J. Bailey [6/21/1918] Letter from Leo J. Bailey [6/21/1918] Letter from Leo J. Bailey to his mother [11/17/1918 Letter from Leo J. Bailey to his mother [11/17/1918 Memoir: "My Trip to France With the Am. Leg. In 1927" by Leo J. Bailey, with photographs. [1927] Memoir: "My Trip to France With the Am. Leg. In 1927" by Leo J. Bailey, with photographs. [1927] Memoir: "Trip to Europe '68" by Leo J. Bailey, written for surviving comrades and family members of his fellow soldiers [1968]. Memoir: "Trip to Europe '68" by Leo J. Bailey, written for surviving comrades and family members of his fellow soldiers [1968]. Certificate of Appointment to Sergeant [10/16/1919] Certificate of Appointment to Sergeant [10/16/1919] Honorable Discharge certificate Honorable Discharge certificate Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/item/afc2001001.76979 DLC-AFC 2025-03-14 loc.natlib.afc2001001.76979