Name
George Day
11 Jan 1891
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/09/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
13647
Durham Light Infantry
15th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 14 A and 15 C.
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Harpenden Town Memorial, Not on the Kinsbourne Green memorial
Pre War
George was born in Kinsbourne Green Harpenden on 11 Jan 1891 to George Day, Kennel man at Herts Hunt Kennels, and Sophia (nee Pearce) .The family lived in Kennel Cottages at Kinsbourne Green.
Wartime Service
George attested in Darlington on 9 Sep 1914 as Private 13647, giving his occupation as Kennel man.
After training at DLI Depot, Newcastle he was posted to Witley Camp as Corporal on 19 Aug 1915. He went to France on 11 Sep 1915 and and seems to have been deployed in Divisional rear echelons until he joined 15th Battalion DLI in 2 Platoon A Company on 9 Jul 1916.
He was reported wounded and Missing on 16 Sep 1916 during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette. His death was presumed at a later date and is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme.
An undated article in the Hertfordshire Express reported:
"FIVE SOLDIER BROTHERS: ONE KILLED
Mr. and Mrs. George Day, of Kinsbourne Green, have now been officially informed that their third son, Pte. George Day, of the Durham Light Infantry, who was reported missing on September 16th, last year, was killed in action on that day. He joined the Army shortly after the war broke out. Mr. and Mrs. Day have four other sons in the service, their names and regiments being, Gunner Arthur Day. R.G.A., in France, Pte. Frederick Day, Gloucestershire Regt., in Mesopotamia, Trooper Joseph O. Day, Herts Yeomanry, in Mesopotamia, and Pte. Harry Day, Hertfordshire Regt., in France."
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £9 10s and arrears of £12 18s paid to Father. Brother Frederick Willis served with Gloucestershire Regt and died in Mesopotamia Nov 1917.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper, Derry Warners
Jonty Wild, Mary Skinner, Harpenden & District Local History
Society (www.harpenden-history.org.uk)
