Stanley Hadfield Day was born in Stockport in 1916. When war broke out in 1939 he was a 23-year old railway goods clerk living with his parents and younger brother, and next door to one of his three married sisters.

He signed up with the Royal Artillery and trained as a gunner. At the end of 1940 he wore his uniform at his marriage to Frances Lillian Lester in Stockport, and by February 1941 he was serving with “F" troop, 239 field battalion, in the Middle East.

He wrote home to his nephew, Leslie, from Syria later that year, encouraging him to work hard at school and to look up “Syria” in his atlas. His unit was moved to Egypt in the build-up to the battle of El Alamein.

Stanley was reported as “missing” on 12th January 1942. His body was never identified and after the war his name was engraved on the memorial at the entrance to El Alamein war cemetery.

Also after the war, Lilian, his widow, re-married. In the Summer of 1946 she married Stanley’s younger brother, Eddy. She was widowed for a second time in 1960 but lived on in Stockport until 2015.