Name
Arthur George Day (*1)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/12/1918
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
120303
Royal Garrison Artillery
No. 1 Depot
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CODICOTE (ST. GILES) CHURCHYARD
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Giles Church Memorial, Codicote, Peace Memorial Hall Memorial, Codicote, Union Church Memorial, Peace Memorial Hall, Codicote, Diocese - Book of Remembrance, St Albans Cathedral, St Albans, Diocese of St Albans - ROH, St Albans Cathedral, St Albans
Pre War
Born in Codicote on 17 April 1894 and baptised at St Giles, Codicote, on 24 June 1894, only son of Arthur George and Laura Sarah Day (nee Cooper) of New Town, Codicote. 1911 Census: living with family at New Town, Codicote and working as farm labourer. Gave occupation as Cowman on enlistment.
Wartime Service
Called up on 7 October 1916 and went to Nottingham for 4 months for his initial training. Then posted to Donegal, Ireland, for 2 months .Served with Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 1917 for 20 months, where he saw much fighting, taking part in engagements at Wiencourt, Poppy, Hancourt, Messines Ridge and Ypres. Wounded in the left thigh at Harcourt on 4 October 1918 and invalided home, being admitted to hospital in Scotland. Spent several weeks shuttling between Codicote, Scotland and Catterick waiting for demobilisation. He became ill and died from lobar pneumonia at the military hospital in Catterick, Yorkshire.
Additional Information
Wartime service information from UK, De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour. His father was serving as Private 295447 in D Platoon of the 70 Labour Corps.
*1 The St Albans Cathedral Diocese records suggest a connection to Codicote for a man named Arthur James Day who was recorded as a Private in the Royal Regiment of Artillery. We have not identified a man with this name however, this man Arthur George Day who was a Gunner in the Royal Garrison Artillery. We think that he is likely to be the man commemorated in the Diocese records.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer, June Colegrove, Roll-of-Honour.com
