Ipswich YMCA
Born: 1889, Creeting St. Mary, Suffolk.
Died: 1st July 1916; age 27; KiA.
Occupation: Blacksmith.
Date of Entry Therein: 24th August 1914.
Rank: Corporal; Service Number: 20553.
Regiment: Royal Army Medical Corps – attached to the King’s Own – Royal Lancaster Regiment, 1st Battalion.
Formerly Private, 20553, Royal Army Medical Corps, 11th Field Ambulance.
Medals Awarded: Victory, British War & 1914 Star.
Grave Reference:
I.I.80.
Colincamps, Somme,
France.
Relatives Notified & Address: Son of Ernest and Ellen Day, of Needham Market, Suffolk; husband of Maud Mary Day, of Fen Farm, Creeting St. Mary, Needham Market, Suffolk.
Brother to PERCY OLIVER JAMES DAY.
CENSUS
1891 Creeting St. Mary, Suffolk.
Sydney was 2 years old and living with his parents & siblings.
James Alfred Ernest Day, 25, a Blacksmith, born Needham Market, Suffolk.
Ellen Eliza Day (nee London), 22, born Offton, Suffolk.
Percy Oliver James Day, 3, born Offton.
Miriam Ethel Day, 10 months, born Creeting St. Mary.
1901 Barking, Suffolk.
Sydney was 12 years old and living with his parents & siblings.
James, 35, a Blacksmith.
Ellen, 32.
Percy, 13.
Miriam, 10.
Mabel Ellen Day, 9, born Creeting St. Mary, Suffolk.
Claude Alec Day, 4, born Needham Market, Suffolk.
Frank Cyril Day, 3, born Needham Market.
1911 ‘Northcotes’ 552, Woodbridge Road, Ipswich.
Sydney was 22 years old, a Blacksmith’s Viceman – Motor & Carriage Works. He was a Boarder at the family home of 55 year old, Walter Joseph Upson, a Bricklayer – Builder.
In 1915, Bosmere, Sydney married Maud Mary Tydeman, born 1889, Earl Stonham, Suffolk, of Fen Farm, Creeting St. Mary, Suffolk.
Soldiers’ Effects to Maud Mary Day – widow.
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