Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private P. Day, 7th Dragoon Guards, later 5th Dragoon Guards

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (5015 Pte. P. Day. 7th. Dragoon Gds:); 1914 Star, with clasp, the clasp loose (4980 Pte. P. Day. 5/D. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (5015 Pte. P. Day. 5-D. Gds.) nearly extremely fine (4) £240-£280

P. Day attested for the 5th Dragoon Guards before transferring to the 7th Dragoon Guards and served with them during the Boer War in South Africa. Reverting back to the 5th Dragoon Guards on 16 January 1903, he saw further service with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 15 August 1914, before transferring to the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) on 14 December 1916. He was killed in action on 29 November 1917, and is buried in Ypres Reservoir Cemetery, Belgium.

Sold with copied medal roll extracts and medal index card.