Name
Fred Reuben Day
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
12/03/1915
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
9967
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 31 and 33.
Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour,
St Mary's Parish Church Memorial, Watford
Pre War
Son of Duke William and Hannah (formerly ROBINSON, nee WATKINS) DAY of Watford; husband of Florence Maud (nee CROOKES) DAY of Sheffield, Yorks.
His parents married 1889 in the Sevenoaks, Kent, district. Duke died 1929 in Watford aged 79, and was buried 8 March in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; Hannah possibly died 1932 in the Stepney, London, district aged 75.
Fred was born 7 August 1894 in Watford or Bushey, Herts, and baptised 29 August 1894 at St Mary’s, Watford. He married 1914 in the Watford district, and resided in Watford. Florence never remarried, and died 1976 in the Sheffield district aged 91.
On the 1901 Census, aged 6 he lived in Watford, with his parents and two siblings. On the 1911 Census, a general labourer aged 18 he was a boarder in Hertford.
Wartime Service
He enlisted at Stratford, Essex; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914 Star medals, his qualifying date being 16 August 1914, and was killed in action in the front line trenches on the canal bank south of Ypres.
Additional Information
There is an article about Fred in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 10 April 1915.
Unfortunately, Fred’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)