Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Corporal W. F. Day, South Wales Borderers

1914 Star, with clasp (9238 Pte. W. F. Day. S. Wales Bord.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (9238 A-Cpl. W. F. Day. S. Wales Bord.); Imperial Service Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue (William Frederick Day); Russia, Empire, Medal of St. George, 4th Class (9238 L. Cpl. W. F. Day, 1/S.W. Bords.), officially impressed naming and the reverse officially numbered ‘165124’, generally good very fine (5) £500-700

Provenance: Llewellyn Lord Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2016.

Russian Medal of St. George, 4th Class London Gazette 25 August 1915.

William Frederick Day was born at Hoxton, Shoreditch, in 1889, and attested for the South Wales Borderers in 1906. He served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 13 August 1914. For his gallant and distinguished services during October and November 1914, Day was Mentioned in Despatches by Sir John French (London Gazette 17 February 1915), in addition to being awarded the Russian Medal of St. George, 4th Class, a unique award to the Battalion for service in 1914 and early 1915.

Day subsequently transferred to the 2nd Signal Company, Royal Engineers, and in September 1924, shortly after his discharge, was appointed a Postman in the London area. He later transferred to Penn, High Wycombe in August 1937, and for his services to the Post Office was awarded the Imperial Service Medal on retirement.