Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Signalman H. Clay, 3rd Divisional Signals, Royal Corps of Signals, late Leicestershire Regiment, who died of wounds on D-Day, 6 June 1944

India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1937-39 (5047231 Pte. H. Clay. Leic. R.) official corrections to rank and unit; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, good very fine (5) £200-£300

Harry Clay was born in Hanley, Stoke on Trent in June 1913, and was the husband of Eva Clay of Hinckley, Leicestershire. He briefly served with the North Staffordshire Regiment prior to attesting for the 1st Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment in May 1932. Clay served with the 14th Company, Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps as part of the B.E.F. in France from November 1939, and transferred as a Signalman to Royal Corps of Signals in August 1941. He died of wounds serving with 3rd Divisional Signals, Royal Corps of Signals on D-Day, 6 June 1944, buried in the Hermanville War Cemetery, Calvados, France.

Sold with copied service papers.