Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918
Day H W Pte 925 Herbert William 6 Inf Bn 19 Carrier Single Pres
Address: Kensington, Derby St, 19
Next of Kin: Day, Rawel Wm, 19 Derby St, Kensington
Enlisted: 17 Aug 1914
Embarked: A20 Hororata 19 Oct 1914
Relatives on Active Service:
Day L E Pte 785 brother
One Thousand Days with the AIF
Date of death: 27/03/1918
CWGC: "Son of Rowell William and Christina Day, of 49, Gower St, Kensington, Victoria, Australia.
Native of Moonee Ponds, Victoria".
ST. POL BRITISH CEMETERY, ST. POL-SUR-TERNOISE
Extracts from Australian Red Cross Missing and Wounded Enquiries Bureau Correspondence.
Johnston C F Pte 951
6th Btn, D Coy, 16th Platoon
Mentioned in our cable of the 6th Jan as Missing in August.
He was a champion amateur light weight wrestler and was an MP in Egypt to the 6th Bn.
H W Day No 925 of the 6th Btn on the 6th October wrote to his father as follows:
He was in the same tent as the casualty. They went out together in the last charge, but had not gone far when they got to the Turks' trenches and had to retire, and informant missed the casualty and he and about a dozen others went out again but could not find him. The informant had a look over the trench every night for 3 or 4 nights to see if he could see the casualty lying about, but could not find him".
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Private Herbert W. Day, second son of Mr. R. W. Day, of 19 Gower street, Kensington, was killed in action in France after 3 years, and months' service, on 27th March.
ROLL OF HONOR. (1918, May 2). The Essendon Gazette and Keilor, Bulla and Broadmeadows Reporter (Moonee Ponds, Vic. : 1914 - 1918), p. 5 Edition: Morning. Retrieved June 10, 2012, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74605777
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Flemington-Kensington Church News, May 1918
925 Pte. H. W. Day was killed in France on March 27th. His parents live at 49 Gower St. They have other two boys at the war. May God be near to them all in their sore grief!
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Australian Red Cross Society
Missing and Wounded Enquiry Bureau Files
I was travelling by train to Doullens, and we were in St. Pol station, which was about 20 miles behind the line, when the Germans started shelling the station with long range guns. The train was moved outside the station, and received a direct hit from a 12" H.E. shell, which killed 11 men outright, and wounded about 10 more. I stopped behind to clear up, and saw and recognised the bodies of Jack Reid, Frank Bunting, and "Mallie" Phillips, under the horses with which they had been travelling, also the body of Cpl. Joe Cook, who had been thrown over a hedge, and Charlie Been, who was lying on the line. They had all been killed outright. I also saw the bodies of R/Q/M/Sgt, Osborne, and Ptes, Rompie, Le Brock, and Day, who had also been killed outright by the shell. It happened about 8pm towards the end of March, 1918. We had to leave the bodies on the side of the line, and continue our journey. The Railway Transport Officer, at St. Pol Station, promised to attend to the burial.
Turnbull EM. 2243, 58th Battn. A. Coy. S/B
Richmond Mil. Hpl. Grove Road.
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War Service Commemorated
Kensington Methodist Church*
Flemington Branch Australian Natives Association (ANA) *
Flemington-Presbyterian-Church
Essendon Gazette Roll of Honour With the Colours
Regimental Register
No In Memoriam notices in The Argus up to 1921.
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