Four: Lieutenant G. H. Day, Pioneer Corps, late Essex Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (1605 Sjt., Essex R.); Defence and War Medals extremely fine (4) £30-40

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals Formed by The Late A. A. Mount.

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Sold with card box of issue for the two Second World War medals, addressed to ‘Lt. G. H. Day’ of Park Road, Southend-on-Sea. During the Great War, Day served as a Sergeant in the 6th Battalion Bedfordshire and the 8th Battalion Essex Regiments, and later as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion Suffolks. He entered the French theatre of war on 31 July 1916. Day was a Lieutenant in the Pioneer Corps during the Second War.