Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (Ivan George Day) mounted on a wire hanger; Memorial Scroll ‘Pte. Ivan George Day Training Reserve; together with a white metal vesta case, engraved ‘Weare Peace Day July 19, 1919. In grateful memory of your service Ivan G, Day, Pte. 93rd T.R.’., plaque slightly polished, scroll slightly torn with folded creases, nearly very fine (2) £80-£100

Ivan George Day, from Weare, Axbridge, Somerset, was born in 1899. He attested into the Gloucestershire Regiment for service during the Great War, and died at home on 3 April 1917 whilst serving with the Training Reserve, after contracting pneumonia. He is buried in St. Gregory’s Churchyard, Weare, Somerset.

Sold with a photographic image of the recipient in uniform, and copied research.