Name
Maurice Henry (Jack) Day
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
14/11/1944
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
10602972
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn. The Hertfordshire Regt.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Faenza War Cemetery
VIII. A. 16.
Italy
Headstone Inscription
REST IN PEACE
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, St. John's War Memorial, St. Mary's Church, Hitchin, Hitchin Roll of Honour 1939 – 1945 (Book) St Mary’s Church, Hitchin
Biography
Born and residing in Hertfordshire, he was a bricklayer before he joined up in 1942. He was in the 1st Battalion of the Hertfordshire Regiment and was given the Service Number 10602972 and went to Gibraltar and Italy where he was killed in action.
Ibis was in the hills south of Bologna. The front taken over by the 1st Herts was the most northerly held by Allied troops in Italy at that time. The dominating feature was Monte Cerere which was held by the Allies.
He was buried in Plot 8, Row A, Grave 16 in Fienza Cemetery in Italy. A private inscription on the stone reads "Rest in peace".
His parents were Mr and Mrs HM. Day of 58, Stevenage Rd, Hitchin and his wife, formerly Betty Fox, lived at 1, Lawrance Ave, Stevenage.
A photograph of him appeared in the Herts Pictorial.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, Mrs Barbara Clark - his sister, Paul Johnson - local historian, Story of the Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment, ‘Cap Badge’ by R. H. Medley,
Herts Pictorial dated 5th Dec 1944
