58667: Photograph of Pte. Day, killed by a shell with Seven Comrades

<p dir="ltr">Private Day was killed together with sixteen of his AIF comrades during the German Spring Offensive of 1918 (Operation Michael - Kaiserschlacht) when a shell burst directly overhead killing seven of them instantly. Their names appear on seven Headstones in a single row side by side.</p> <p>The legend on these seven headstones at St. Pol British Cemetery in St.Pol-Sur-Ternoise Northern France, just 20 miles from Arras, reads:</p> <p>Believed to be buried in this Cemetery</p> <p><br>Editor's Comment:<br> Pte. 925 Herbert William Day, 58th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F., was killed in action 27th March 1918, aged 23. </p> <p>According to the Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau files, Pte. Day was killed during heavy calibre shelling of a train, which had been carrying his battalion to Doullens, outside St. Pol station.</p>