Jeffrey Game Day, RNAS (since killed). For great skill and bravery as a fighting pilot. On 25 January he attacked, single-handed, six enemy triplanes, one of which he shot down. On 2 February 1918 he attacked and destroyed an enemy two-seater machine on reconnaissance at 18,000 feet. He destroyed several enemy machines in a short space of time, and, in addition, had numerous indecisive engagements. Poetry Day began writing poetry during his spare time, initially humorous verses for his fellow officers in the style of W. S. Gilbert, but later, inspired by Rupert Brooke's The Old Vicarage, Grantchester, he began to compose longer serious poems. Only three of these; "On the Wings of the Morning", "An Airman's Dream" and part of "To My Brother", were published in his lifetime, the first in Cornhill, and the other two in The Spectator. "To My Brother" was inspired by the death of his older brother Dennis Ivor Day, who was serving as a second lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery when he was shot by a sniper at Vermelles on 25 September 1915, finally dying from the injury on 7 October. Day's collected poems were published post-war, and two of his poems were anthologized in A Treasury of War Poetry, British and American Poems of the World War, 1914-1919, edited by George Herbert Clarke, and also in Cambridge Poets 1914-1920: an Anthology, compiled by Edward Davison, published in 1920. References Notes Bibliography 1896 births 1918 deaths People from St Ives, Cambridgeshire People educated at Sandroyd School People educated at Repton School Royal Naval Air Service aviators Royal Navy officers of World War I British World War I flying aces 20th-century English poets British World War I poets 20th-century English male writers British military personnel killed in World War I Recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom) English male poets