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Nicholas Paget BaylyAge: 531905–1958

Name
Nicholas Paget Bayly
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Nicholas Paget
Surname
Bayly
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Birth 1905 31 22
 

Birth of a brother 1906 (Age 12 months)
 

younger brother - Geoffrey Armatage Bayly
Australian History 1906 (Age 12 months)
 

Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Birth of a sister 21 October 1908 (Age 3)
 

younger sister - Margaret Hope Bayly
Australian History 1908 (Age 3)
 

Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country
Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead
Australian History 1909 (Age 4)
 

Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
Birth of a sister 1910 (Age 5)
 

younger sister - Nancy Bayly
Australian History 1910 (Age 5)
 

Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.
Australian History 1911 (Age 6)
 

Note: The Royal Australian Navy is founded
Note: The Northern Territory comes under Commonwealth control, being split off from South Australia
Note: The first national census is conducted.
Note: Australian Capital Territory proclaimed.
Birth of a brother 13 July 1912 (Age 7)
 Gunnedah, New South Wales, Australia

younger brother - Bruce Joseph Bayly
Australian History 1912 (Age 7)
 

Note: Australia sends women to the Olympic Games for the first time
Note: Walter Burley Griffin wins a design competition for the new city of Canberra
Australian History 1913 (Age 8)
 

Note: Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains.
Note: Matthew Flinders refers to New South Wales by the name 'Australia'.
Australian History 1913 (Age 8)
 

Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place
Australian History 1914 (Age 9)
 

Note: Australian soldiers are sent to the First World War. This was first time Australians had fought under the Australian flag, as opposed to that of Britain's.
Death of a father 27 August 1915 (Age 10)
 Gallipoli Pine

father - William Henry Bayly
Australian History 1915 (Age 10)
 

Note: (25 APRIL)Australian soldiers land at Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey on 25 April.
Note: Jervis Bay Territory comprising 6,677 hectares surrendered and becomes part of the Australia Capital Territory.
Note: Surfing is first introduced to Australia
Note: Billy Hughes became Prime Minister
Australian History 1916 (Age 11)
 

Note: Hotels are forced to close at 6 p.m., leading to the beginning of the 'six o'clock swill'
Note: Australia suffers heavy casualties in the Western Front Battle of the Somme.
Note: The Returned Sailors� and Soldiers� Imperial League of Australia, the forerunner to the Returned and Services League of Australia is founded
Note: The Labor government under Billy Hughes splits over conscription. First referendum on conscription is rejected
Death of a paternal grandmother 20 December 1917 (Age 12)
 Adams St, South Yarra, Victoria, Australia

paternal grandmother - Margaret Elizabeth Humphries
Australian History 1917 (Age 12)
 

Note: Second referendum on conscription is rejected. Transcontinental railway linking Adelaide to Perth is completed.
Note: Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade launches last cavalry charge in modern warfare to capture Beersheba from the Ottoman Turks.
Australian History 1918 (Age 13)
 

Note: (08 AUG) Battle of Amiens
Note: Australian troops spearhead 8 August offensive against Hindenberg Line - the 'black day of the German Army'.
Note: On 12 August, Australian commander General Sir John Monash is knighted in the field of battle by King George V
Note: First World War ends - 60,000 Australians dead.
Note: The Darwin Rebellion takes place, with 1,000 demonstrators demanding the resignation of the Administrator of the Northern Territory, John A. Gilruth.
Australian History 1919 (Age 14)
 

Note: Prime Minister Billy Hughes signs Treaty of Versailles: the first signing of an international treaty by Australia. Australia obtains League of Nations mandate over German New Guinea.
Australian History 1920 (Age 15)
 

Note: The airline Qantas is founded
Australian History 1921 (Age 16)
 

Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament
Australian History 1922 (Age 17)
 

Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney
Australian History 1923 (Age 18)
 

Note: Vegemite is first produced
Death of a paternal grandfather 27 July 1925 (Age 20)
 "Talarang", Bonshaw, New South Wales, Australia

paternal grandfather - Charles Fitzroy Bayly
Australian History 1926 (Age 21)
 

Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held
Australian History 1927 (Age 22)
 

Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital
Australian History 1928 (Age 23)
 

Note: Bert Hinkler makes the first successful flight from Britain to Australia, and Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first flight from the United States to Australia. The Shrine of Remembrance is built.
Australian History 1929 (Age 24)
 

Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary
Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia.
Australian History 1930 (Age 25)
 

Note: Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings
Note: Phar Lap wins his first Melbourne Cup
Australian History 1931 (Age 26)
 

Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia
Australian History 1932 (Age 27)
 

Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens
Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister
Australian History 1933 (Age 28)
 

Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments
Birth of a daughter
#1		 23 September 1935 (Age 30)
 

daughter - Cynthia Margaret Bayly
Australian History 1936 (Age 31)
 

Note: The last Thylacine dies
Australian History 1937 (Age 32)
 

Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins
Australian History 1938 (Age 33)
 

Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games
Australian History 1939 (Age 34)
 

Note: (April) Prime Minister Lyons dies in office and is replaced by Robert Menzies and the first Menzies Government
Note: (September) Australia enters the Second World War following the German Invasion of Poland. The 2nd Australian Imperial Force is raised.
Note: The first flight is made by an Australian-made warplane, the Wirraway
Note: Victoria is devastated by the Black Friday bushfires
Australian History 1940 (Age 35)
 

Note: A team of scientists, under Howard Florey, develops penicillin
Note: Fascist Italy enters war, Royal Australian Navy engages Italian Navy in the early stages of the Battle of the Mediterranean.
Australian History 1941 (Age 36)
 

Note: 3 Divisions of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force join operations in the Mediterranean. After initial successes against Italy, 2nd AIF suffered defeat against the Germans in Greece, Crete, and North Africa.
Note: Apr-Aug, Australian garrison (Rats of Tobruk) halt advance of Hitler's panzers for the first time during the Siege of Tobruk.
Note: Menzies resigns and John Curtin becomes Prime Minister in the Curtin Government of 1941-45.
Australian History 1942 (Age 37)
 

Note: Feb, Fall of Singapore. 15,000 Australians become Prisoners of War of the Japanese
Note: 1942-43 - Japanese air raids - almost 100 attacks against sites in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland.
Note: The Royal Australian Navy and 6th and 7th Divisions of 2nd AIF are recalled from Mediterranean Theatre to participate in the anticipated Battle of Australia.
Note: 1942-3 - Sparrow Force engages in guerilla campaign in Battle of Timor
Note: Battle of the Coral Sea - United States and Royal Australian Navy halt advance of the Japanese towards Port Moresby (Australian Territory of Papua)
Note: Battle of Kokoda Trail - Australian soldiers halt Japanese march on Port Moresby
Note: Aug-Sep, Australian forces inflict the first defeat on the Imperial Japanese Army in the Battle of Milne Bay.
Note: Jul-Nov, Australia's 9th Division plays crucial role in the First and Second Battle of El Alamein, which turned the North Africa Campaign in favour of the Allies.
Note: National daylight saving is introduced as a war time measure.
Note: The UK Statute of Westminster is formally adopted by Australia. The Statute formally grants Australia the right to pass laws that conflict with UK laws.
Australian History 1943 (Age 38)
 

Note: Australia wins its first Oscar, with cinematographer Damien Parer honoured for Kokoda Front Line! documentary.
Note: 2,815 Australian Pows die constructing Japan's Burma-Thailand Railway
Note: 1943-44 - Australian forces engage Japan in New Guinea, Wau, and the Huon peninsula.
Australian History 1944 (Age 39)
 

Note: Cowra breakout, mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war occurs in NSW.
Note: Japanese inflict Sandakan Death March on 2,000 Australian and British prisoners of war - only 6 survive. The single worst war crime perpetrated against Australians.
Note: Australian forces battle Japanese garrisons from Borneo to Bougainville.
Note: The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is introduced, providing subsidised medicine to all Australians
Australian History 1945 (Age 40)
 

Note: the Liberal Party of Australia is established with Robert Menzies as its first leader.
Note: Australian forces lead Battle of Borneo
Note: (7 May) Nazi Germany surrenders
Note: (July) Prime Minister Curtin dies and is replaced by Ben Chifley and the Chifley Labor Government
Note: (1 August) Japan Surrenders
Note: Australia becomes a founding member of the United Nations
Note: The Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race is held for the first time
Australian History 1946 (Age 41)
 

Note: Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell introduces the major post-war immigration scheme
Note: Norman Makin, is voted in as the first President of the United Nations Security Council.
Australian History 1948 (Age 43)
 

Note: Minister for External Affairs, Dr. H.V. Evatt is elected President of the United Nations General Assembly.
Note: Australia becomes a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Australian History 1949 (Age 44)
 

Note: Construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme begins
Note: All indigenous ex-servicemen and any Indigenous Australians who are eligible to vote in State Elections (NSW, VIC, SA and TAS) are given an unrestricted right to vote in Federal Elections.
Note: The Nationality and Citizenship Act is passed. Rather than being identified as subjects of Britain, the Act established Australian citizenship for people who met eligibility requirements.
Note: Menzies returns to power as leader of the new Liberal Party Menzies Government.
Australian History 1950 (Age 45)
 

Note: 1950-53 - Australian troops are sent to the Korean War to assist South Korea.
Note: Voters reject a referendum to change the Constitution to allow the Menzies Government to ban the Communist Party
Australian History 1951 (Age 46)
 

Note: Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand
Australian History 1952 (Age 47)
 

Note: First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia.
Australian History 1954 (Age 49)
 

Note: Elizabeth II and Prince Philip make a royal visit; the Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov defects, leading to the Petrov Affair and another split in the Labor Party
Australian History 1955 (Age 50)
 

Note: Democratic Labor Party splits from Australian Labor Party over concerns of Communist influence in the labour movement
Note: Australia becomes involved in Malayan Insurgence
Note: Hotels in New South Wales no longer have to close at 6 p.m., ending the 'six o'clock swill'
Australian History 1956 (Age 51)
 

Note: Television in Australia is launched.
Note: Melbourne holds the Olympics
Note: performing artist Barry Humphries introduces Edna Everage to the Australian stage
Australian History 1957 (Age 52)
 

Note: The song 'Wild One' makes Johnny O'Keefe the first Australian rock'n'roller to reach the national charts.
Note: Slim Dusty's Australian country music hit Pub With No Beer becomes the first Australian song to attain international chart success.
Death 12 May 1958 (Age 53)
 Petersham, New South Wales, Australia

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father
William Henry Bayly

Birth 1874 28 24  Bundella, New South Wales, Australia

Death 27 August 1915 (Age 41)  Gallipoli Pine

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mother
Florence "Matilda" Clarke

Birth 4 April 1882  

Death 3 October 1974 (Age 92)  

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Marriage: 22 April 1902
8 months
#1 elder brother
Philip Fitzroy Bayly

Birth 1903 29 20  

Death 1980 (Age 77)  

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2 years
#2 himself
Nicholas Paget Bayly

Birth 1905 31 22  

Death 12 May 1958 (Age 53)  Petersham, New South Wales, Australia

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#3 younger brother
Geoffrey Armatage Bayly

Birth 1906 32 23  

Death 1973 (Age 67)  

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#4 younger sister
Margaret Hope Bayly

Birth 21 October 1908 34 26  

Death 17 January 1974 (Age 65)  

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#5 younger sister
Nancy Bayly

Birth 1910 36 27  

Death yes  

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3 years
#6 younger brother
Bruce Joseph Bayly

Birth 13 July 1912 38 30  Gunnedah, New South Wales, Australia

Death 1982 (Age 69)  

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himself
Nicholas Paget Bayly

Birth 1905 31 22  

Death 12 May 1958 (Age 53)  Petersham, New South Wales, Australia

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wife
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#1 daughter
Cynthia Margaret Bayly

Birth 23 September 1935 30  

Death 28 August 2008 (Age 72)  Robina, Queensland, Australia

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Nicholas Paget Bayly has 12 first cousins recorded

Father's family (12)

Parents Frederick Strachan III + Edith Frances Josephine Bayly
1 Helen Elizabeth "Betty" Strachan ?–1995
2 Joan Annette Strachan ?–?
3 Frederick Bayly "Beau" Strachan 1921–2021
Parents Cyril Portus + Alice Maude Bayly
1 Douglas Bayly Portus ?–?
2 Henry Bayly Portus ?–?
3 Ronald Bayly Portus ?–?
Parents Norwood Tasman Strachan + Florence Bayly
1 Graham Strachan 1920–?
2 Margaret Strachan 1917–1999
Parents Clarence Charles Bayly + Esmee Gertrude Bligh Oakes
1 Lois Margaret Fitzroy Bayly 1915–?
Parents Norman Alexander McIntosh + Caroline Emily Bayly
1 Margaret Jean McIntosh 1910–1995
2 Ian Alexander McIntosh 1915–1995
3 Peggy McIntosh 1917–?

Mother's family (0)

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