Memorial in the Old English Cemetery, Livorno, Italy commemorating John Bayley d. 1710
Location
Old English Cemetery, Via Giuseppe Verdi, Livorno, Italy, Rest of the World
Transcript
'Hic jacet / Iohannes Bayley anglus / navis Hannover ductor / qui / aetatem agens annorum XXV / in conflictu cum duabus triremibus Gallicis / strenue pugnans / die xii Augusti MDCCX / insigni vulnere percussus / occubuit' [Here lies John Bayley Englishman, Commander of the ship 'Hannover' who died at the age of 25 mortally wounded while fighting valiantly in an action with two French warships on 12 August 1710.]
Details
Vessel: Hanover
Event
1701-1714 War of the Spanish Succession
People
Bayley, John
Age: 25
Date of Death: 12/8/1710
Cause of Death: War casualty
Rank / Occupation: Commander
Organisation:
Age: 25
Date of Death: 12/8/1710
Cause of Death: War casualty
Rank / Occupation: Commander
Organisation:
Extra
Notes: Commander of the 'Hanover Galley' privateer, killed in action with two French Galleys. Letters of marque 14 June 1706, 24 August 1709, 27 May 1710. National Archive HCA 26/14/178. Translation Silvia Bozzato.
Bibliography: G.G. Milner-Gibson-Cullum; Francis Campbell Macauley 'The inscriptions in the old British cemetery of Leghorn' (Leghorn, 1906) p.28.
Bibliography: G.G. Milner-Gibson-Cullum; Francis Campbell Macauley 'The inscriptions in the old British cemetery of Leghorn' (Leghorn, 1906) p.28.