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Edward (Edmund) Holmes Day was born in Beverley 1887, the son of a soldier and he lived with his mother on Lurk Lane, Beverley. He married Daisy May Welburn, Highgate in 1910, in 1911 they had the first of three sons. He was employed as a tanner's labourer.
Edmund enlisted in the Yorkshire Regiment in Apr 1915 and found himself in France as part of the 150th Brigade, 50th Northumbrian division. He was involved in the Battles of the Somme and following the clearance of Delville Wood a deep advance was made towards Flers. The British using tanks for the first time in the battle known as Flers Courcelette, it was on the first day of this battle that Private Day was killed in action. He lies in the Adanac Military Cemetery, Miraumont, France and is commemorated on the East Riding Memorial in Beverley Minster, the War Memorial in Hengate and on the Hodgson's Tannery Roll of Honour.
The Beverley Guardian 15 Nov 1916 carried a photograph and in the following year the same paper has an in memoriam to "my dear husband Edmund from his sorrowing wife and 3 sons." His wife later remarried Jack Burnett.
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