Name
George Edmund Day
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/11/1914
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
8182
Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 37 and 39.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Christ Church Memorial, Watford,
Not on the Tring memorials,
St Leonard's War Memorial, Buckinghamshire
Pre War
Son of Mary Ann MATTHEWS (formerly DAY, nee BATES) of Tring, Herts, and the late John DAY.
His parents possibly married 10 August 1882 at St Peter’s, Berkhamsted, Herts. Mary remarried 1890 in the Aylesbury district to George MATTHEWS, and died 1941 in the Aylesbury district aged 82.
George was born 1883 in Tring, and resided in Tring.
On the 1891 Census, he is proving elusive. On the 1901 Census, a farm labourer aged 18 [recorded as MATTHEWS] he lived in Buckland, Tring, with his mother, step-father and four siblings. On the 1911 Census, a farm labourer aged 28 he still lived in Buckland, with his mother, step-father and three siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Aylesbury, Bucks, 29 December 1911 a labourer; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914 Star medals, his qualifying date being 1 September 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, George’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
George is possibly the G DAY commemorated at Christ Church.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
