Name
Walter John Day
1879
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/03/1919
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
128364
Royal Army Medical Corps
No. 7 Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BISHOP'S STORTFORD OLD CEMETERY
E. 6. 22A.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Bishops Stortford Town Memorial
Pre War
Walter
John Day was born in 1879 in Bishop's Stortford to George and Phoebe Day. The
family were living at 14 New Town Road, Bishop's Stortford on the 1881 Census
and, although his father died in 1888, Walter was still living there on the
1911 Census with his widowed mother, and worked as a life insurance agent. He
had an older brother and two sisters.
Wartime Service
He enlisted on 15 November 1915 when he was 36. He appears not to have been in the best of health, having showed signs of phthisis and being myopic, which may be why he was not mobilised until March 1918.
He died in Bath War Hospital from
cardiac failure following hydrocele influenza and toxaemia. His family were
notified on 5 March 1919 that he was seriously ill.
Additional Information
His mother was granted a war gratuity of £5 and pay owing of £9 5s 11d. On enlistment his stated religion was Baptist.
Walter's headstone (not CWGC) bears the inscription:
"In Loving Memory of
WALTER JOHN DAY
THE BELOVED SON OF THE LATE GEORGE & PHOEBE DAY. WHO PASSED AWAY MARCH 8TH 1919. AT BATH WAR HOSPITAL. AGED 39 YEARS.
"Looking unto Jesus"
ONE GENTLE SIGH THE FETTER BREAKS'
WE SCARCE CAN SAY HE'S GONE,
"Looking unto Jesus"
ONE GENTLE SIGH THE FETTER BREAKS'
WE SCARCE CAN SAY HE'S GONE,
BEFORE THE HAPPY SPIRIT TAKES
ITS SEAT AROUND THE THRONE.
ITS SEAT AROUND THE THRONE.
Addition inscriptions record his father and mother, who may also be buried here.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
