service, family and later life Day married Ada Evans in 1911 and was a bottle agent before World War I. He volunteered for military service in January 1916 under the Derby scheme. He joined the Artists Rifles of the British Army in 1917 and applied to join an Officer Cadet Unit, later being commissioned as a second lieutenant. Due to medical complications he only served on the home front during the war and, after being promoted to lieutenant in January 1919, two months after the Armistice with Germany, was demobilised in April of the same year. He resigned his commission in 1920. Day lived in Blackheath and worked as a stockbroker after the war. His son, David, played for Kent's Second XI in 1935, having attended Tonbridge School. He was killed in action in Burma in February 1944 whilst serving as a captain in the Wiltshire Regiment. He played one first-class cricket match for the Europeans in the 1940 Madras Presidency match in India. One of Day's sisters, Daisy, married Charles Toppin, a teacher at Malvern College, who played cricket for Cambridge University. Day died at Budleigh Salterton in Devon in January 1969 aged 83. References External links 1885 births 1969 deaths Military personnel from Kent English cricketers Kent cricketers People educated at Malvern College Wisden Cricketers of the Year Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Gentlemen cricketers H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI cricketers British Army personnel of World War I Artists' Rifles officers