Originally Posted by
Skafloc
Further research has revealed that Lt Charles George Gordon Bayly's father was Captain Neville Saltren Keats Bayly and mother was Henrietta Charlotte Gordon, sister of General Gordon of Khartoum. His father joined the RE at Chatham, Gordon was commander of the RE's, and young Lt Bayly, named after his favourite uncle, started life in the RE's before transferring to the RFC. So being born in South Africa to a military Officer I think would make him a, loosely termed, 'army brat'. So I am getting closer to home and the tenuous links of ancestry.
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