Name
Frank William Day
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/04/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
41050
Essex Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ATHIES COMMUNAL CEMETERY
E. 17.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin
Pre War
Son of Frank E. and Flora Day, of East Terrace, Drury Lane, Melbourn, Royston, Herts (Melbourn is actually in Cambridgeshire). He was born and his home was in Melbourn, but he had lived in Hitchin for four years with his aunt at 49, Lancaster Road, Hitchin and was resident there when he enlisted in June 1916.
Before being called up he was employed by the Home and Colonial Stores in Hitchin.
Wartime Service
He was posted to the 2nd Battalion and was allocated the Regimental Number 41050. He went to France in October 1916 and was killed in action in France by a sniper's bullet He had previously served as No. 29947 with the Bedfordshire Regiment
The 2nd Battalion was part of the 12th Brigade of the 4th Division in the 3rd Army. On the day of Frank's death, the Battalion was in an afternoon advance of about three and a half miles from the area of St. Laurent Blagny to the northern outskirts of Athies and on to the area between Hyderabad Redoubt and Fampoux. A day of violent attacks and severe casualties on the wire from shells and machine-guns.
He is buried in Grave E17 in the Athies Communal Cemetery Extension in France.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
