REGINALD EDWIN DAY

Born: 1884, Ipswich.

Baptised: 23^rd November 1884, at St. Helen’s Church, Ipswich – family home at 35, Alexandra Road, Ipswich.

Died: 19th October 1917; age: 33; killed at his post of duty.

Evening Star – 31^st October 1917 – Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F. Day, of 44, Warweick Road, Ipswich, have received notification that their son, Private Reginald Edwin Day, of the Suffolk Regiment, was killed in action on the 19^th October. In a letter to the parents, Lieutenant E. W. N. Tayler says: “We had been heavily shelled for some time, and a shell landed close to your son, killing him instantaneously and burying him in the trench. Your son was a cheerful soldier and always did his duty bravely, and will be very much missed by us all. Your son died nobly at his post of duty for his King and country.

Residence: 44, Warwick Road, Ipswich.

Enlistment Location: Ipswich.

Rank: Private; Service Number: 43724

Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 9th Battalion.

Formerly 2549, Suffolk Regiment.

Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.

Memorial Reference:

Bay 4.

Arras Memorial,

Pas de Calais,

France.

Relatives Notified & Address: Only son of Edwin Frederick & Jane Day, of 44, Warwick Road, Ipswich.

CENSUS

1891   44, Warwick Road, Ipswich.

Reginald was 6 years old and living with his parents.

Edwin Frederick Day, 32, a Shoe Clicker, born Ipswich.

Jane Beatrice Day (nee Frost), 29, born Ipswich.

1901  44, Warwick Road, Ipswich.

Reginald was 16 years old, a Grocer’s Assistant. He was living with his parents.

Edwin, 42, a Shoe Clicker.

Jane, 39.

1911   44, Warwick Road, Ipswich.

Reginald was 26 years old, a Grocer’s Assistant. He was living with his parents.

Edwin, 52, a Boot Clicker.

Jane, 26.

Soldiers’ Effects to Edwin Day – father.

Probate to Edwin Frederick Day – father, a Fruiterer.

Reginald is also remembered on the war memorial at Christ Church United Reformed Church, Tacket Street, Ipswich – formerly from the Crown Street Congregational Church, Ipswich and at St. Clement’s Congregational Church, Ipswich.

Reginald is remembered on his parents’ headstone at Ipswich Old Cemetery, Section O.

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