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DAY, John
(Service number 57490)

Jack and Violet Day on the day of their wedding, 1925 — (Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database / Family contributed )

Aliases	Jack. Enlisted as Jack DAY.
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	18/03/1890	Place of Birth	Kerrytown

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Grey's Hills, Fairlie
Occupation	Ploughman
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs Mary DAY (mother), Kerrytown, Timaru
Religion	Roman Catholic
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	29yh Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Regiment, C Company
Date	15 August 1917
Transport	Ruahine
Embarked From		Destination	Glasgow, Scotland

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Western European
Service Medals	British War Medal; Victory Medal
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date	21 July 1919	Reason	Termination of his period of engagement.

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	19/05/1958	Age	68 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	General Section, Row 60, Plot 1596
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

John DAY, known as Jack was the son of Robert William and Mary (née LUSEY) DAY. His brother, Robert Joseph DAY, and his cousins, John Arthur SULLIVAN and Victor Joseph SULLIVAN, also served in WWI. Jack first appealed his call-up, saying that he was the only son left to support his mother. He believed that Robert would be back from the front in 1917. Their father had died in 1899 at Tekapo.

Sources

Cenotaph Database [03 December 2015]; Timaru Herald, 29 May 1918 (Papers Past) 01 December 2015]; Timaru Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [03 December 2015]; NZ BDM historical records indexes (Department of internal Affairs) [17 January 2015]

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