SKELTON - IN - CLEVELAND
IN HISTORY
"WE WILL REMEMBER THEM"

Company Serjeant Major WALTER EDWARD DAY.

30517, 78th Coy., Royal Garrison Artillery.

who died, age 42, on the 23rd May 1919.

Son of Sarah Ann Day, of 2, Cromwell Rd., York, and the late William Day.
Born at 12 Brewery Tce, Skelton Green, Skelton-in-Cleveland, N Yorks.


The census of 1881 records Walter E Day, aged 4, living at 12 Brewery Tce, Skelton Green, N Yorks.
(Brewery Tce was the old name for Trout Hall Lane.)
Walter's father,William, aged 31 at this time, had been born in Skelton and worked as an Ironstone miner.
His mother, Sarah came from Wilton, N Yorks.
He is the eldest child in the family and had two sisters, Emily H aged 2 and Charlotte 7 months.
By the time of the 1901 census the family had moved to 33 Boosbeck Rd and had 7 more children.
One of these was James H Day, who was killed on the 31st October 1914, while serving with the Royal Field Artillery. [see memorial on previous page].

The circumstances of Walter Day's death 6 months after the armistice have not yet been traced.