Bailey, Robert Edmund
Navy Reserves Ship’s cook 3rd class

Robert Edmund Bailey, age 20, from Rock Island County Moline, Illinois .

Parents: Carrie Belle Bailey

Service era: World War II
Schools: Moline High graduate

Date of death: Monday, October 11, 1943
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Wahoo when it was sunk by Japanese ships and aircraft in La Perouse Starit.

Source: National Archives, oneternalpatrol.com, Rock Island Argus (1946)