Charles Henry DAY

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Toowoomba Soldiers' Memorial Hall WW1 Roll of Honour

Charles Henry DAY

Birthplace
Emu Plains NSW
Resided
Toowoomba
Occupation
Station Hand
Enlisted
14-January-1916
Place
Toowoomba
Age
25
Status
Single
Service No
43
Rank
Private
Unit
14th Light Horse Regiment, A Squadron
Embarked
13-May-1916
Place
Sydney
Active Service
Western Front
Highest rank
N/A
Honours and Awards
No
Fate
How Died
Died of disease
Date
15-November-1918
Place
Abbeville, France
Cemetery or Memorial
Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension, France
Notes

Name on ROH: T.D. KAY

Also named on Independent Order of Rechabites Invincible Tent No 3 Roll of Honour.

Brother of 545 Private Edward Alexander Day.

 

Charles Day transferred to the recently-raised 52nd Battalion in England in July 1916 and arrived in France in December. In April 1918 he was wounded in action at Villers-Bretonneux and hospitalised in England. He transferred to the 4th Machine Gun Battalion after returning to France in September. On 9 November he contracted influenza and was admitted to Abbeville Hospital where six days later he died from pneumonia.