Sydney Day

Sydney Ernest Day (9 February 1884 – 7 July 1970) was an English amateur sportsman who played cricket for Kent County Cricket Club between 1922 and 1925 and football for Old Malvernians and Corinthian. He served in the First World War in the Royal Fusiliers and the Royal Engineers and was wounded during the Battle of the Somme.

Early life Day was the third son of a wine merchant and was named after his father. He was educated at Shirley House School in Blackheath and Malvern College. Day played football for Malvern and appeared in the Second XI cricket team. On leaving school he joined the Royal Insurance Company, working in London. He was commissioned as Second Lieutenant in July 1915 and served on the Western Front in France with 17th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers from April 1916. Day fought in the Battle of the Somme in a Trench Mortar Battery and was wounded in November 1916 at Beaumont-Hamel during the Battle of the Ancre, the last phase of the Somme offensive. Eight of his appearances were made during the 1923 season and he played his final two first-class matches the following season. He made his highest score of 45 not out against Worcestershire in 1923, an innings which secured the match for Kent.

Day married Faith Winch in 1915. He died in 1970 at home in West Malling at the age of 86.