248695 Pte. Frederick Leonard Day British Army 2nd (Airborne) Btn. Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry (d.24th March 1945) Frederick Day, enlisted in 2nd Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry. He fought in the War Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45. During this time, he was involved in an air accident whilst flying over Germany, and is buried at Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Grünewaldstrasse, Kleve, Germany.
We cannot find out much about him to add a story. The Day Family was a relatively large one and had lived in Duxford and Hinton Waldrist, Berkshire for generations. Frederick's great grandfather Thomas was born Duxford in 1811 and was a basket maker, and his sons agricultural labourers. His father Joseph had moved with Lizzie and lived in Windhill Hill Cottages, Kingston Hill, Kingston Bagpuize in 1911 but died in Aldershot in 1960 aged 85. His wife Lizzie died in 1947 aged 72 years. We have no proof that Frederick was ever living with his parents.
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