Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Guardsman F. Daily, 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards, who died of wounds on 15 November 1914

1914 Star, with clasp (6975 Pte. F. Daily. S. Gds:); British War and Victory Medals (6975 Pte. F. Daily. S. Gds.); Memorial Plaque (Frank Daily) good very fine (4) £240-£280

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Barry Hobbs Collection of Great War Medals.

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Frank Daily was born in 1889 at Coatbridge, Lanarkshire and attested for the Scots Guards on 30 January 1908. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 7 October 1914 and died on 15 November 1914 from wounds received in action. The previous day his Battalion had relieved the 2nd Royal Welch Fusiliers in trenches at La Cordonerie Farm near Fromelles.

Frank Daily (surname spelt Dailey by the CWGC) was the husband of Mrs Amelia Elizabeth Daily of May Cottage, Market St., Ventnor, Isle of Wight and he is buried in Wimereux Communal Cemetery, France.