Peter Baillie
(May 1921 – 1988)
Peter Baillie was a fan and pro from Stirlingshire in Scotland active in the 1950s. He attended the Supermancon in 1954 and was an occasional visitor to, although not strictly a member of, the New Lands SF Club in Glasgow. He contributed to Space Times and was listed as a donor to TAFF in Hyphen #14 (June 1955). At the Supermancon, Ted Tubb noted that he met 'Peter Bailey [sic] (Peter may soon be the Northern organiser for the Vargo Statten Club)[1]. The club never came into being.
Baillie joined the Territorial Army at 18 and later served in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps and the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, the latter in North Africa in 1942, leaving the army around 1946. He began reading sf seriously around 1947 and encountered fandom through Operation Fantast[2]. He was the author of five short stories between 1954 and 1957, three co-written with Ron Deacon.
Before military service he worked as a stove and grate fitter at an iron foundry. After the Second World War he returned to the job, but for health reasons switched to the vitreous enameling department.
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