Name
Sidney Frederick (Frank) Day
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/03/1917
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
201164
Essex Regiment
1st/4th
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GAZA WAR CEMETERY
XV111. C. 15
Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
North Mymms War Memorial,
St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, North Mymms,
North Mymms Memorial Hall Memorial, Welham Green,
We are not aware of any memorial in Water End
Pre War
The 1911 Census shows Sidney living with Father William a farm labourer, Mother Alice, Brothers Arthur and Walter, Sisters, Alice, Lilley, Jessie and Ruth at no 6 Maypole Cottages Water End. Sidney was a domestic Gardener.
Recorded as born living in North Mimms (possibly a postal towm for Water End) when he enlisted in St Albans.
Wartime Service
He volunteered in August 1914 to join the Bedfordshire Regiment but was rejected because of his sight. He tried again in November 1914, finally being accepted in early 1915 as 20756 Bedfordshire Regiment.
He was transferred to the Essex Regiment and sent to Egypt with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force and killed at Gaza.
Acknowledgments
Mike Allen
