Day, Kenneth George
Personal Information
Rank | AC2 |
Forename(s) | Kenneth George |
Surname | Day |
Gender | M |
Age | 20 |
Decorations | |
Date of Death | 04-09-1939 |
Next of Kin | Son of George Allen Day and Edith Blanche Day, of Belle Vue, Shrewsbury, Shropshire. |
Aircraft Information
Aircraft | Vickers Wellington I |
Serial Number | L4275 |
Markings | WS-H |
Memorial Information
Burial/Memorial Country | Germany |
Burial/Memorial Place | Becklingen War Cemetery |
Grave Reference | 26. C. 12. |
Epitaph | ALWAYS IN MY HEART. MUM |
IBCC Memorial Information
Phase | 2 |
Panel Number | 154 |
Enlistment Information
Service Number | 549741 |
Service | Royal Air Force |
Group | 3 |
Squadron | 9 (IX) |
Trade | Air Gunner |
Country of Origin | United Kingdom |
Other Memorials
Location | Village Green, Bardney, Lincolnshire |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Stone Memorial, Propeller and Plaque |
Memorial Text | In memory of the killed or missing of IX Sqd. 1939 - 1945 |
Miscellaneous Information
His body was picked up by a cargo steamer 10 days after the incident and was initially buried with full military honours at Cuxhaven Cemetery. His body was exhumed in 1946 and concentrated into Becklingen War Cemetery. According to the German official news agency at the time, many German officers and a guard of honour accompanied his funeral. The naval chaplain officiating, said in his address that it was "natural for our German soldiers to respect and honour the enemy who fell in an honest fight". |
Kenneth Day was a member of Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists - a 'blackshirt'. The deaths of Ken Day and George Brocking were reported in Mosley's Action newspaper of October 12th 1939. The report stated: "In the first casualty list of the war appeared two names: K.G.Day and G.T.Brocking. Both were British Union members - both went down in the early days of the war in circumstances of extraordinary heroism, the details of which will one day be revealed. We Shall Remember." |
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The National Archives
Fellow Servicemen
Last Operation Information
Start Date | 04-09-1939 |
End Date | 04-09-1939 |
Takeoff Station | Honington |
Day/Night Raid | Day |
Operation | Attack enemy ships in Brunsbuttel Harbour |
Reason for Loss | Shot down by ground fire in target area. Part of a force of 14 Wellingtons dispatched to attack shipping in the mouth of the Kiel Canal. Only four reported bombing in the target area while another dropped bombs on the Danish city of Esbjerg 110 miles away, killing two civilians |