Name
Herbert Stanley Day
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/11/1916
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
19791
Northamptonshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 11 A and 11 D.
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Harpenden Town Memorial, Church of St Nicholas Memorial, Harpenden
Pre War
Herbert Stanley was born in Harpenden in 1897, the son of Charles Day, a coal porter, and Maria (nee Smith).
The family lived in Cravells Road, Harpenden and on the 1911 Census Herbert was employed as a butcher’s boy.
Wartime Service
Herbert had enlisted in St Albans. He joined the 2nd Battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment.
Herbert was killed in action in France on 7 Nov 1916, his first day in the trenches, in the closing stages of the Battle of the Somme.
He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild, Mary Skinner, Harpenden & District Local History Society (www.harpenden-history.org.uk)
