He was an assistant teacher at Dean Bank School. A photograph of him was unveiled at the school in March 1918.
Soldiers Died in the Great War states that he resided in Ferryhill and enlisted in Durham.
Rev. David Youngson has provided the following:
3360 Rowlandson Lodge
Year of Warrant 1909
Town Hall Ferryhill
2797 L/Cpl Bayles William Henry
Durham Light Infantry 8th Battalion
An Assistant School Master residing at Ferryhill, he was Initiated on the 19th May 1913; Passed 23rd July 1913 and Raised on the 11th March 1914. He enlisted at Durham and died of wounds on the 27th April 1915 aged 26 and is buried in Cement House Cemetery, Langemark-Poelkapelle, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Grave Reference XVII.C.4.
William Henry Bayles is remembered in Ferryhill on F38.02, in the NUT list of Teachers who died in the Great War and in the D.L.I. Book of Remembrance page 102
