The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private E A Day

Photograph by "Military Historian"

Private Elvey Arthur DAY, 201337, 2nd / 4th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, Egypt, 11th May 1917, age 27.

Born Swanscombe, Kent, son of Elvey and Alice Day, of Swanscombe, Kent.

1911 Census - 38 Eglington Road, Swanscombe, Greenhithe, Kent - Elvey Day, head, age 4, married, general labourer, cement works, born Dartford, Kent; Alice Day, wife, age 57, married 33 years, 7 children, 4 still alive, born Bean, Stone, Kent; Elvey Arthur Day, son, age 21, single, grocers shop assistant, born Swanscombe, Kent; Leonard Alfred Day, son, age 18, single, bakers shop assistant, born Swanscombe, Kent.

Enlisted Gravesend, Kent.

Commemorated at Kantara War Memorial Cemetery, C. 66., Egypt. and on Swanscombe War Memorial.

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