21st October 1917

Dare Day's grave

19-year-old Gunner Reginald Dare Day, an Old Silhillian, was killed in action on 21st October 1917 whilst serving with the Royal Garrison Artillery. Solihull School during the First World War by John Loynton indicates that he was born in 1899 and entered school in 1910, leaving in 1913 after having passed the Preliminary Oxford Local Examinations.

He didn’t actually serve under his own name but, instead, served under the name William Cartledge Garner. This is quite clear from the Register of Soldiers’ Effects, which includes the name of 78623 William Cartledge Garner with an addition underneath in different handwriting: “alias Reginald Dare Day”. His next of kin is given as his brother, Andrew S. Day.

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18th October 1917

Second Lieutenant James Henry Cremonini was killed in action on 18th October 1917, aged 18. He was the only son of parents Anthony Lewis Cremonini (a stockbroker) and Fanny (née Cockill), who also had four daughters – Monica Marie (1896-1978), Edith Magdalen (1897-1985), Veronica (1900-1981) and Sylvia May Selina (1902-1995). James Henry was born on 22nd October 1898, so was just four days short of his 19th birthday when he was killed.

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15th October 1917

37-year-old Private Herbert Ernest Rhodes died of wounds at 56th General Hospital, Etaples on 15th October 1917, serving with the 1st Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. He was born in Castle Bromwich on 28th February 1880 and baptised at St Mary & St Margaret’s Church, Castle Bromwich on 4th April 1880.

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6th October 1917

Private Trevor William Moseley, 5th Battalion Dorset Regiment, was killed in action on 6th October 1917. He was born in Beoley, Worcestershire in 1897 and was the second of the three children of parents William Henry (a farmer) and Sarah Matilda (née Benbow) who had married in Oswestry, Shropshire in 1893. He had an older sister, Gladys (born 1895) and a younger brother, Robert Watkin Moseley (born and died in 1901).

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5th October 1917

Private Horace James Davis, 9th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment died on 5th October 1917. He was born in Solihull and baptised at St Alphege Church on 26th February 1893. He was the seventh of the eight children (six daughters, two sons) born to parents, James (a labourer) and Harriett (née Clifford) who had married in Solihull in 1875. One of the children – Alice Mary – didn’t survive infancy – being born and dying in 1878. A younger sister was born ten years later and named Alice Mary after her deceased sibling.

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4th October 1917

Nine local men lost their lives on 4th October 1917 whilst on active service:

  • Lance Corporal Edwin John Adams, 14th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
  • Private Eric Ashley Ellis, 13th Company, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
  • Sergeant Charles Haynes, 1st/5th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
  • Second Lieutenant Albert Bertini Heywood, 10th Battalion, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
  • Private Lewis James Knight, 30th Battalion, Australian Infantry
  • Lance Corporal George Henry Pegg, 1st/6th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
  • Private William Savage, 1st Battalion, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
  • Private William Thomas Tropman, 1st/8th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
  • Gunner Arthur Whinfrey, 256th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

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