Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith (4549 Pte. H. Day, Somerset Lt. Infy.) edge bruising, good very fine £90-£120

Herbert Day, a labourer from Shipham, Bristol, was born in 1878. He attested into the 4th (Militia) Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry on 19 February 1898 and served in South Africa during the Boer War with the 2nd Battalion. He was present at the Battles of Venter’s Spruit and Spion Kop and was heavily engaged in the Battle of Colenso. He died of enteric fever at Smithfield on 1 June 1900, where he is buried.

Sold with copied service papers and a photographic image of the recipient’s grave.