10.5287/BODLEIAN8C7C.2
First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University Of Oxford
University Of Oxford
First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Photograph of Pte. Day, killed by a shell with Seven Comrades (1)
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
2011
Dataset
nsJvlaZm126051
1914-08-01/1918-03-27
2011-12-05 11:02:45.261833
2011
gwa-3838
Photograph
Private Day was killed together with sixteen of his AIF comrades during the German Spring Offensive of 1918 (Operation Michael - Kaiserschlacht) when a shell burst directly overhead killing seven of them instantly. Their names appear on seven Headstones in a single row side by side.
The legend on these seven headstones at St. Pol British Cemetery in St.Pol-Sur-Ternoise Northern France, just 20 miles from Arras, reads:
Believed to be buried in this Cemetery
Editor's Comment:
Pte. 925 Herbert William Day, 58th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F., was killed in action 27th March 1918, aged 23.
According to the Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau files, Pte. Day was killed during heavy calibre shelling of a train, which had been carrying his battalion to Doullens, outside St. Pol station.