Captain John Edward Day

Regiment: Royal Irish Regiment
Date published: 04/05/1917
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 06/04/1917
Age at death: 22
Cemetery: Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, Nord, France
Plot: III. B. 60.
Information: Captain John Edward Day, Royal Irish Regiment, died of wounds received in action. Captain Day, who was the son of the late Dean Day, of Waterford, was 22 years of age, and was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Dublin. He was gazetted Second Lieutenant in August, 1914, and Captain in April, 1916. On April 8th, 1916, he was severely wounded. His eldest brother was killed in action in East Africa in November, 1914.