Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Private A. E. Day, Grenadier Guards

1914-15 Star (22523 Pte., G. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (22523 Pte., G. Gds.) nearly extremely fine (3) £40-60

Arthur Edwin Day was born in Holdfast, near Upton-on-Severn, Worcestershire. He attested for the Grenadier Guards on 1 December 1893, aged 21 years, 4 months. Serving in the the Boer War as Private 4635 he was awarded the Queen’s medal with clasps for Cape Colony and South Africa 1902. Transferred to the Army Reserve in July 1902, he was discharged in November 1905. Believed to be the same person, with the start of the Great War, he rejoined the Grenadier Guards as Private 22523. With them he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 16 March 1915. Sold with copied service papers and copied m.i.c.