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Pair: Lance Corporal A. A. Day, 11th (Cambridgeshire) Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, who was...
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Pair: Lance Corporal A. A. Day, 11th (Cambridgeshire) Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, who was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916 British War and Victory Medals (15760 Pte. A. A. Day. Suff. R.) very fine (2) £200-£240 --- Alfred Arnold Day was born in Comberton, Cambridgeshire in 1897. He attested into the Suffolk Regiment for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front with the 11th (Cambridgeshire) Battalion. Advanced Lance Corporal, he was one of 527 members of his battalion to be killed in action of the first day of the Battle of the Somme and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France. His brother, 1391 Corporal Walter Day, also 11th Battalion, Suffolk Regiemnt, was killed in the same action and a further brother, 41202 Pte. Henry John Day of the 3rd Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment, died on 22 May 1919. Sold with copied research.
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Pair: Lance Corporal A. A. Day, 11th (Cambridgeshire) Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, who was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916 British War and Victory Medals (15760 Pte. A. A. Day. Suff. R.) very fine (2) £200-£240 --- Alfred Arnold Day was born in Comberton, Cambridgeshire in 1897. He attested into the Suffolk Regiment for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front with the 11th (Cambridgeshire) Battalion. Advanced Lance Corporal, he was one of 527 members of his battalion to be killed in action of the first day of the Battle of the Somme and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France. His brother, 1391 Corporal Walter Day, also 11th Battalion, Suffolk Regiemnt, was killed in the same action and a further brother, 41202 Pte. Henry John Day of the 3rd Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment, died on 22 May 1919. Sold with copied research.
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