John Thomas Day
View John Thomas on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission websiteService number:
13268
Rank:
Private
Service:
Leicestershire Regiment
Origin:
Date of birth:
09 August 1890
Date of death:
10 April 1917
Age at Death:
26
Known information
Private John Thomas Day of the 6th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, was born on 9 August 1890 at Redmile, the son of John and Elizabeth Day of Caldecott. He was an ironstone worker before joining up on 4 September 1914, the day more Rutland men enlisted than at any other time during the war. Eleven of them were to die. John enlisted in the 9th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, along with another Caldecott
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Rutland and The Battle of the Somme
More than 90 Rutland soldiers died in the Battle of the Somme which lasted from 1 July 1916 until the middle of November. Today they lie in cemeteries across the old battlefield in northern France or are remembered among the 72,000 names on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme. By using our interactive map, you can find out what happened to them.
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