Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘French theatre’ M.M. group of four awarded to Corporal S. W. Day, 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, who received a gun shot wound to the knee in October 1918

Military Medal, G.V.R. (20169 L. Cpl. S. W. Day. 2/Suff: R.); 1914-15 Star (20169 Pte. S. W. Day, Suff. R.); British War and Victory Medals (20169 Cpl. S. W. Day. Suff. R.) contact marks overall, nearly very fine (4) £300-£400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Simon C. Marriage Collection of Medals to the Suffolk Regiment.

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M.M. London Gazette 28 January 1918.

Sidney Walter Day was born in Ipswich, Suffolk and attested for the Suffolk Regiment at Felixstowe in May 1915. He served during the Great War with the 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment in the French theatre of War from 7 December 1915. Day advanced to Corporal in April 1918, and received a gun shot wound to the knee in October of the same year.