Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4109 Cpl. J. H. Day, Worc: Regt.) replacement suspension, minor edge bruising, very fine £60-£80

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, June 2008 (when sold as a 3 clasp medal, without the ‘Cape Colony’ clasp)

Joseph Henry Day was born in Wolverhampton in 1874, and attested for the Worcestershire Regiment on 20 July 1894, whilst currently serving in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. He served with the 2nd Battalion in Malta and Bermuda, and in South Africa during the Boer War from November 1901 to September 1902. Having attained the rank of Sergeant in March 1900, he was reduced to Corporal in March 1902 having been tried by general court martial for drunkenness on duty. He was transferred to the Army Reserve in September 1902, and was discharged on 19 July 1906, after 12 years’ service.