Born in Lahore on 3 February 1882, F.H.M. Bailey, was the son of an officer in the Royal Engineers British Army (who was also named Frederick, resulting in the younger Bailey usually being called just Eric). He studied at Edinburgh Academy, Wellington 1895-1899 and at Sandhurst from where he was commissioned onto the Unattached List, Indian Army on the 28th July 1900. He was admitted to the Indian Army 26 October 1901 and appointed to the 17th Bengal Lancers. He was promoted to Lieutanant 28 October 1902 and transferred to the 32nd Sikh Pioneers on the 1st March 1903. He obtained a transfer to the Foreign & Political Department 24 January 1906. During a mission in Sikhim he began to study Tibetan, and became so proficient that he accompanied Francis Younghusband in his 1904 invasion of Tib
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| - Born in Lahore on 3 February 1882, F.H.M. Bailey, was the son of an officer in the Royal Engineers British Army (who was also named Frederick, resulting in the younger Bailey usually being called just Eric). He studied at Edinburgh Academy, Wellington 1895-1899 and at Sandhurst from where he was commissioned onto the Unattached List, Indian Army on the 28th July 1900. He was admitted to the Indian Army 26 October 1901 and appointed to the 17th Bengal Lancers. He was promoted to Lieutanant 28 October 1902 and transferred to the 32nd Sikh Pioneers on the 1st March 1903. He obtained a transfer to the Foreign & Political Department 24 January 1906. During a mission in Sikhim he began to study Tibetan, and became so proficient that he accompanied Francis Younghusband in his 1904 invasion of Tib
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| - Born in Lahore on 3 February 1882, F.H.M. Bailey, was the son of an officer in the Royal Engineers British Army (who was also named Frederick, resulting in the younger Bailey usually being called just Eric). He studied at Edinburgh Academy, Wellington 1895-1899 and at Sandhurst from where he was commissioned onto the Unattached List, Indian Army on the 28th July 1900. He was admitted to the Indian Army 26 October 1901 and appointed to the 17th Bengal Lancers. He was promoted to Lieutanant 28 October 1902 and transferred to the 32nd Sikh Pioneers on the 1st March 1903. He obtained a transfer to the Foreign & Political Department 24 January 1906. During a mission in Sikhim he began to study Tibetan, and became so proficient that he accompanied Francis Younghusband in his 1904 invasion of Tibet. He later travelled in unknown parts of China and Tibet, elected a Fellow of the Geographic Society in October 1906 (seconded by his father Colonel F Bailey who had joined the society in 1880) eventually earning the Gold Explorer's Medal from the Royal Geographical Society for his discoveries. He also contributed notes on big-game to the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. He was promoted Captain 28 July 1908 and served during the operations in the Abor country 1911-12. Having heard about rumours of a large waterfall, Bailey transferred himself from the Indian Army to the Political Department to get appointments on the Tibetan frontier. In 1911-12 he made an unauthorized exploration to the Tsangpo Gorges with Captain Henry Morshead of the Survey of India . Morshead was later a surveyor for the initial 1921 British Reconnaissance Expedition to Mount Everest, along with George Mallory. Their adventures led them to the Rong Chu valley a gorge on the upper Tsangpo. It was in this valley that Bailey spotted a tall blue poppy at the margin of the forest and pressed it in his notebook - now called Meconopsis baileyi. They reached Kintup's falls at the monastery of Pemakochung and were greatly disappointed to find the falls to be about thirty feet.
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