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1893 - 25/09/1915

Place of birth: Chislehurst, Kent
Last known address in Bromley: 50 Recreation Road

Military information

Regiment/Service: King's Own Scottish Borderers
Battalion/Ship: 6th Bn
Rank: Corporal
Number: 12343

Family information

Parents: Charles Herbert & Edith Ethel Day (nee Polden)
Parents' occupation: Cab driver
Siblings: (1) Elizabeth, Charles, Ernest, Edith Amy, Agnes Martha, Ethel Violet (2) Staples - Rose, Edith, Elsie, Alice, Grace, George James
Wife: Lydia Eva Revell
Marriage date: 05-12-1914
Children: Leonora Amy

Census information

1901
Address: Walter's Yard
1911
Address: Hayes
Occupation: Grocer's assistant

Extra details

Leonard was the youngest son and sixth of Charles And Edith Day's seven children. Charles was 67 when Leonard was born and died in 1897. In 1898 Edith married George William Eve Staples and had a further six children. On 5th April 1912 George, Edith and the six children sailed from Liverpool for St John, New Brunswick, settling in Toronto.

Leonard was baptised on 10th December 1893. He was educated at Valley School, Shortlands and was a member of Shortlands Congregational Lads' Bible Class. On leaving school Leonard worked for Welford's Dairy and then Harrod's Stores, Hayes. He then went to Vickers' in Earlstown, Lancashire. While living in Bromley he helped to start the Avondale Cricket Club and was a close follower of football. In Earlsdown he was the secretary to St Phillips Football Club.

When war was declared Leonard was visiting Bromley but he immediately returned north and enlisted in Warrington. On 5th December 1914 he married Lydia Revell (a nurse) in Woking, Surrey. In May 1915 he was sent to the Front where he died at the Battle of Loos. Leonard never saw his daughter who was born in January 1916.