Name
(Arthur) William Day
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/09/1915
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
4/7034
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 41.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Thundridge War Memorial, St Mary’s Church Memorial, Ware, Christchurch Memorial, Ware, Ware Town Memorial, Not on the Stevenage Old Town memorials
Pre War
Born 15th August 1896, in Thundridge, Herts. Son of Reuben and Susann Ann Day. Baptised 4th October 1896, in Thundridge, Herts.
The 1901 Census shows him aged 4 years living with his family at Brockingall Cottages, Widbury Hill, Ware, Herts. and the 1911 Census shows him aged 14 years living with his family at The Sacombe Pound, Sacombe, Nr Ware, Herts. His occupation is given as working on farm and his father’s as a horsekeeper.
He enlisted in Hertford in 1914, while resident in Stevenage.
Wartime Service
He entered the Theatre of War “France” on the 11th November 1914 and was shot in the neck by a German sniper (the family still have the bullet). He recovered and went back to the front where he was hit by a shell in the Battle of Loos on the 25th September 1915, aged 19 years.
He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France. (Battle of Loos 25th September 1915 to 14th October 1915).
Additional Information
The CWGC Inscription reads “Son of Reuben and Susann Ann Day of Brockingall Cottages, Widbury Hill, Ware, Herts”. The second photograph shows him on the right of the picture with a bandage round his neck.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, John Adey (grandson), Maurice Charge, Stuart Osborne, Pat Bird
