Name
Frederick Willis Day
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/11/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
33932
Gloucestershire Regiment
7 Bn
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY
XVI. F. 12.
Iraq
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Harpenden Town Memorial,
Church of St Nicholas Memorial, Harpenden,
Not on the Kinsbourne Green memorials
Pre War
Frederick Willis was born in 1888 in Kinsbourne Green to George Day, Kennel man at Herts Hunt Kennels, and Sophia (nee Pearce).
The family lived in Kennel Cottages at Kinsbourne Green. On the 1911 Frederick was a General Labourer. He married Beatrice Rawling in 1914.
Wartime Service
Frederick’s service record is unclear as his Medal Roll was completed for the the Gloucestershire Regiment 7th (Service) Battalion as Private 33932 and indicates that he was previously Private 144391 with Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment. His ‘Soldiers who Died’ record states that he was previously 144391 Royal Field Artillery. The 7th Battalion Gloucesters served in Mesopotamia and Frederick died there on 2 Nov 1917, possibly from sickness.
Additional Information
War gratuity of £6 and arrears of £4 16s 9d paid to his widow.
His brother George served with Durham Light Infantry and was Killed in Action 1916.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild, Mary Skinner, Harpenden & District Local History
Society (www.harpenden-history.org.uk)
