No. 9905, Private, George Newnes DAY
Aged 24
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George Newnes Day was born in Swaffham Bulbeck (Newmarket Q4-1892 3B:491) son William and Keziah Jane DAY (née MORGAN).
His father had first married Swaffham Prior born Eliza IVERSON in 1877, she died in Q2-1888, they had four children, Martin J, born 1878 in Swaffham Prior, Lazarus Frederick [1882],Lazarus Eustace [1887] and Eliza who died around the same time as her mother. His father next married Bottisham born Keziah Jane MORGAN in Q3-1888, who had a daughter Jubilee Spalding MORGAN. 1901 census...Aged 10, he was at Main Street, Ravenstone, Leicestershire with his father William DAY [42] cattleman on farm, born Swaffham Bulbeck; his mother Keziah Jane [42] born Bottisham Lode; half-brother Eustace L DAY [15] farm boy, born Swaffham Prior; step sister Jubilee Spalding MORGAN [15] born Swaffham Bulbeck, brother James G.DAY [14] farm boy, born Swaffham Prior, sisters Jane Kezia [9] born Connington, Hunts and Florrie M [8] born Swaffham Bulbeck, and brothers William G [5] born Ramsey, Hunts and Ernest E [3] born Cransley, Northants. 1911 census...Aged 18, a farm labourer, he was in Trumpington, Cambridge with his parents, sister Florrie Matilda and brothers William Gladstone, a farm labourer and Ernest Edward. The birth dates are much altered. |
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He enlisted in Cambridge. His medal card shows he was in France in time to have qualified for the clasp to his 1914 star, )they were certainly under fire before 22nd November 1914)
, but as this clasp was not instituted until after the war and had to be claimed and confirmed, it seems likely that his family made no claim
The cemetery was used from June 1916 to May 1917 by the 20th and 43rd Casualty Clearing Stations. Being wounded and no Army records having been found we cannot say where or when he was wounded. Somewhere not too far away, so perhaps during the action at Berles two days earlier when the Germans shelled Battalion HQ and wounded 7.
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