Private John Thomas Day

Army Number: 62422

Battalion: 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Barn at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire and lived at Newark. Son of John and Rachel Day, of 5 Britannia building Parliament Street, Newark.He was a golf course groundsman before enlisting at Derby. He died of wounds and gastric ulcers at Leeds war Hospital 21st February 1917.His brother Private Arthur Day Leicestershire Regiment also fell in thr great war.

Buried: Newark-Upon-Trent Cemetery, Nottinghamshire. United Kingdom. Plot L. C, Row “C.”, Grave 241.

He is also commemorated on the Newark Cemetery Memorial, Christ Church war Memorial, and St Mary’s church borough of Newark, `Roll of Honour.