Name
Walter Reginald Day
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/12/1921
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
14048
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
NORTH MYMMS (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD AND EXTENSION
North Mymms Churchyard (not a CWGC headstone).
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
North Mymms War Memorial
St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, North Mymms*1
North Mymms Memorial Hall Memorial, Welham Green
Pre War
The 1911 Census shows Walter living with Father William a farm labourer, Mother Alice, Brothers Arthur and Sidney who died in the War, Sisters, Alice, Lilley, Jessie and Ruth at no 6 Maypole Cottages Water End, Walter was a farm labourer.
Wartime Service
From the Parish magazine we find Walter enlisted September 1914, going to the front in May 1915. In March 1916 he was home on leave having taken part in action, and with German Measles and a poisoned thumb. In August 1916 he had been wounded, a bullet in his thigh, and in Hospital in Cardiff. In March 1917 he returned to the front and in April 1918 wrote home to say “Old Fritz wasn't satisfied in hitting me in both knees he shaved my ear as well” and that he expected to be back in “Dear Old England” before long. By May 1918 he was in hospital and his parents had visited him. He was seriously ill, one leg amputated, in a state of collapse, but seemed now to be progressing. By June 1918 he had septic pneumonia and was very weak, possibly in November 1918 having his other leg amputated. It seems that he never fully recovered as he died on the 10th December.
Additional Information
*1 On the War Memorial, but is mentioned as served but not dying in the Roll of Honour which was printed in 1919 – death occurred in 1921). Walter died at home with his Father present on the 27th of October 1921 of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, he is buried in
Acknowledgments
Mike Allen
