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Page, Joseph, Drummer, 7507, 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
Born Gringley, Notts
Enlisted Mildenhall, Suffolk
Killed in action 14th June 1917 aged 28
Commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France

1911 Census
A Private of the 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, stationed at Mustapha Pasha Barracks, Alexandria, Egypt

I personally scanned this postcard from my collection. It shows four signallers in Egypt in front of the Sphinx with the Great Pyramid in the background. The back of the postcard has a pencilled inscription "Suffolk Reg", and the preprinted form is in French and Arabic – the French says "L'adresse seule doit être inscrite de ce côté" and "CARTE POSTALE".

The end figures have heliographs and flags, the centre two signal books, and a signalling telescope is set up in the centre. The right figure has the clearest cap badge, which seems to be that of the Suffolks[1]. The Suffolks 1st Battalion moved to Cairo Egypt on 23 Jan 1912, and left on 24 Jan 1914[3,4].

The heliographs appear to be the 5" Mance Mark III versions, with the hinged "ladder-style" sighting arm and the reinforced right yoke "ear". The left heliograph is the very old style, with the short securing strap at the bottom of one leg and the sling secured to the leg at both ends. The right heliograph has a later model sling, with a "boot" at the end to secure the legs for transport. The Mark III heliograph was replaced by the Mark IV in late 1903, and the Mark IV by the Mark V in early 1906, so this is rather old kit for WWI.

This postcard was scanned at 1200 dpi, and the full resolution version (6587 x 4256 pixels) may be found here:
www.flickr.com/photos/signalmirror/53235453463/sizes/l/

I believe this to be in the public domain in the USA, as an item published before 1928. Any intellectual rights I have have unintentionally obtained by scanning it, I donate to the public domain under the CC0 license. However, copyright law varies widely over the globe - rights determination is your responsibility.

[1] commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Suffolk_Regiment_Cap_Badg...
[2] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffolk_Regiment
[3] History of the 12th (the Suffolk) Regiment, by Edward Arthur Howard Webb, Spottiswoode, 1914
books.google.com/books?id=9CQhAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA385&d...
books.google.com/books?id=9CQhAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA385&d...
[4] www.cwgc.org/stories/stories/private-ernest-goodfellow-1s...
" The 1st Battalion served in Alexandria until 23 Jan 1912 then were posted to Cairo, Egypt. On 24 Jan 1914 they moved again to Khartoum, Sudan, where they were stationed at the outbreak of war. The Battalion returned to England, arriving at Liverpool on 23 Oct 1914 aboard the HMT Grantully Castle.".

St. Patrick's Wapping

Pray for the Soul of BERTRAND WARD DEVAS
Lieutenant Suffolk Regiment
Guardian of the Poor for Stepney
Manager of St. Patrick's Boys
Club. Founder of the Treatment
Centre at Pier Head Killed
at Serre in France Nov. 13th. 1916.
Aged 34 years.
RIP

Bertrand Ward Devas
1882-1916
Educated at Stoneyhurst and Corpus Christi Oxford.
"Among the new Barristers "called" this week, are Mr. Bertrand Ward Devas, B.A. (Oxon.)..." (Tablet 1st February 1908)
"A marriage has been arranged and will take place immediately, between Bertrand Ward Devas, of 5, Pier Head, Wapping, E., Second Lieutenant, 10th Battalion Suffolk Regiment, son of the late Charles Stanton Devas, and Elizabeth Helen Fleet, daughter of J. W. and Mrs. Fleet, of New Cottage, Brockenhurst, Hants." (Tablet 11th September 1915)
"It would be difficult to find a more remarkable Catholic family on the Western Front than that of the Devases. Charles Stanton Devas was distinguished for becoming a Catholic while a schoolboy at Eton. He later went on to Balliol, married, and had nine children. One became a nun, three were priests: Francis SJ, Raymund OP and Philip OFM. All three became army chaplains. Two other sons went into the Army; one was killed. Between them the five brothers were awarded three OBES, one DSO and two MCS"

Circa 1915 or 1916.
Corporal Robert Edgar Geard (1892-1971) born and died at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England.

Prior to military service, in 1911 Bobbie was working as an inland revenue clerk in Moss Side, Manchester.
By 1939 he was living at 8, Out Westgate, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, with his widowed mother & his two spinster sisters. Bobbie was also unmarried.

In 1914 (?) 'Bobbie' signed up for the Suffolk Regiment but was later serving in the Royal Engineers.
In this image, it is very difficult to interpret his regimental insignia, but the general shape of his cap badge seems to be of the Suffolk Regiment.

Bobbie was a friend and fellow soldier of my great Aunt's husband, Wilfred John Woods (1896-1979) of Woodbridge, Suffolk, England.


From a family photo album that was formerly Wilfred John Woods', the husband of my Great Aunt, Ada May Woods nee Thornton.

Circa 1915, unknown location in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England.

See also: flic.kr/p/2oLntk3

With thanks to Taff Gillingham for providing some excellent details, as per the following amendments:-

**The men are all of the Army Service Corps.
At least one of the men is wearing the Simplified Pattern Service Dress jacket, so the photograph won’t have been taken before 1914, or after the end of the war.
Almost certainly early 1915-mid 1916.
They are all still wearing 1905 caps with the stiffening wire still in the top, 1903 Pattern equipment., and carrying virtually obsolete Long Lee Enfield rifles.**

It appears that the two photos were taken on the same day and at the same location.

The first photo shows the men with, I assume, their commanding officer.

The second photo shows the men with their rifles & bandoliers.

From a family photo album that was formerly Wilfred John Woods', the husband of my Great Aunt.
Wilfred served in the Suffolk Regiment during WW1.

Circa 1915, unknown location in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England.

See also: flic.kr/p/2oLkR8X

With thanks to Taff Gillingham for providing some excellent details, as per the following amendments:-

**The men are all of the Army Service Corps.
At least one of the men is wearing the Simplified Pattern Service Dress jacket, so the photograph won’t have been taken before 1914, or after the end of the war.
Almost certainly early 1915-mid 1916.
They are all still wearing 1905 caps with the stiffening wire still in the top, 1903 Pattern equipment., and carrying virtually obsolete Long Lee Enfield rifles.**

It appears that the two photos were taken on the same day and at the same location.

The first photo shows the men with, I assume, their commanding officer.

The second photo shows the men with their rifles & bandoliers.

From a family photo album that was formerly Wilfred John Woods', the husband of my Great Aunt.
Wilfred served in the Suffolk Regiment during WW1.

5825763 C. SJT
H.R. DAVIS
THE SUFFOLK REGIMENT
19TH NOVEMBER 1945 AGE 33

IN EVER LOVING MEMORY
OF "DICKIE"
"UNTIL THE DAY BREAK"

Herbert Richard Davis, known as 'Dickie', was born in 1912, the son of Walter Henry, a journeyman baker, and Jessie Elizabeth Davis of Church Lane, Yoxford in Suffolk. Dickie had two older brothers, Walter Guy and Charles Edgar and three younger brothers, Hubert born 1914, George Eric born in 1917 and Peter born in 1928.
During World War I Dickie's father had served with the Suffolk Yeomanry and then the 15th. Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, he was awarded the British War Medal, Victory Medal and the Silver War Badge.
During World War II Dickie served with the Suffolk Regiment as a Colour Sergeant. Officially his rank was Company Quartermaster Sergeant (CQMS), a non-commissioned officer who is in charge of supplies and serves as deputy to the company sergeant major. He was the second most senior NCO in the company. In infantry companies the CQMS was addressed as 'colour sergeant' and not as 'quartermaster sergeant'. It is not know if Dickie ever saw service overseas.
Dickie went missing on the morning of 19th. November 1945 having returned from leave the day before. Although nothing had been noticed or reported regarding his state of mind he was clearly disturbed.
His body was later found in a pit about a mile away from Gibraltar Barracks, Bury St. Edmunds where he was stationed. He had shot himself in the head.
In a note to his mother, who he had not been to see for six months, he wrote,
"I am not worthy to be called your son. There must have been something wrong with me to neglect you like I have done. Please forgive me Mum. You have been a wonderful mother to me and I have let you down. If I had married when I first came home things would have been OK, the same as my other brothers. The Lord will take care of you".
It seems Jessie had saved over £100 for him, presumably from his pay he had given her. She had given the money to him at some point and he paid it into a Post Office savings account at Yoxford but had overdrawn it by £34. Dickie had received a letter from the Solicitor's Department of the GPO regarding the issue. However, the Coroner stated "It's difficult to see how he overdrew a Post Office savings account" There was no suggestion of legal proceedings being taken against him, the idea was he would repay the sum by weekly instalments.
An inquest was held on 27th. November at Fordham All Saints, Bury St. Edmunds, which returned a verdict that "the balance of his mind was disturbed".
Dickie was buried with full military honours in Grave Y.31 at Yoxford Cemetery.
At the time of his death his mother, Jessie was living at Groveside in Yoxford. His father, Walter, had died in 1936, his mother lived until 1955.

Blockley, George, Private, 41207, 15th (Suffolk Yeomanry) Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
Previously served with 11th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
Formerly 68688, Notts and Derby Regiment
Awarded the Military Medal
Born Melbourne, Derbyshire
Enlisted Derby
Killed in action 5th September 1918 aged 36
Commemorated on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial, Vis-en-Artois, France, Panel 4

1911 Census
A house painter
Husband of Florence Annie, and father of George Herbert Blockley, of Derby Road, Melbourne, Derbyshire

Pension Records
Husband of Florence Annie (born 19th August 1877); father of Leonard Hamilton Blockley (born 12th December 1917), of 56 Curzon Street, Nottingham
Later of Derby Road, Melbourne, Derbyshire

Message on reverse reads -

Camp Felixstowe

Dear Sister
just a line or two hoping they will find you well like this card as I dare say you will find me somewhere about with love to all from Henry

Grave of John Henry Harradine

Harradine, John Henry, Private, 19241, 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
Disembarked for service 6th July 1915
Born Derby
Enlisted Derby
Died of wounds 1st August 1916 aged 21
Son of James and Ellen Harradine, of 108, Bole Hill, Wirksworth, Derby.
Buried in Derby (Nottingham Road) Cemetery, Derbyshire

1911 Census
An apprentice lace designer
Son of James, a sign writer, and Ellen Harradine, of 89, Harrington Street, Derby

Harradine, John Henry, Private, 19241, 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
Disembarked for service 6th July 1915
Born Derby
Enlisted Derby
Died of wounds 1st August 1916 aged 21
Son of James and Ellen Harradine, of 108, Bole Hill, Wirksworth, Derby.
Buried in Derby (Nottingham Road) Cemetery, Derbyshire

1911 Census
An apprentice lace designer
Son of James, a sign writer, and Ellen Harradine, of 89, Harrington Street, Derby

Standard design on a headstone provided by the Commonwealth War Grave Commission to commemorate someone regarded as amongst the war dead of that conflict

No message on reverse.

The Carlton Colville Scouts Memorial is a memorial to seven people associated with the 1st Carlton (St Mark's) Sea Scouts Troop, in Carlton Colville, Suffolk. It was erected to mark the graves of six men and boys of the troop who were killed in a boating accident on 1st June 1914. The sole survivor of the accident was killed two years later at the ''Battle of the Somme'' and his body never found; in 1918, his name was added to the memorial as well. The site received protection as a grade II listed building in 2016.

The 1st Carlton (St Mark's) Sea Scouts Troop camped at nearby Somerleyton during the Whitsun week of 1914. The troop were led by Scoutmaster Thornton Lory (aged 34), Assistant Scoutmaster Sydney Searle (18) and Naval Instructor James Lewington (30). The scouts were Reginald Middleton (14), Arthur Beare (14), Sydney Thrower (16) and Stanley Wood (17). The party had travelled there along the River Waveney by sailing boat without event. The troop struck camp on the morning of 1st June 1914 and embarked on the boat for the return journey at 8:30 am.

Soon after departing, the party lowered the mast and sail of the boat to pass beneath the bridge carrying the Lowestoft–Norwich rail line across the river. Once they had rowed beneath the bridge the group attempted to rehoist the sail. It was caught by a strong north-easterly wind (from behind the boat) which forced the front of the vessel under water and caused it to quickly capsize. Many of the occupants were trapped beneath the sail and all were drowned except Stanley Wood who managed to swim to one of the banks.

Three holidaymakers on a nearby yacht attempted a rescue, assisted by people from the Duke's Head Hotel and a local doctor. The group recovered the bodies by 1 pm and took them to the hotel, where they were covered by a Union Flag. The party were buried as a group in a grave at the New Cemetery, Carlton Colville, following a service at St Mark's Church, with which the troop was associated. The funeral was attended by 300 Scouts from across East Anglia and some 200 wreaths were laid on the grave.

A coroner's inquest was held into the accident, though Stanley Wood was too ill to attend. The inquest found that, apart from James Lewington, all those aboard were ''indifferent swimmers'' and that the boat was overloaded and the weight unevenly distributed. It heard evidence from a witness that all the baggage was loaded at the front of the boat, making it front-heavy, and that it was found with its boom stuck deep into the river bed. The inquest was told by another witness that the person in charge of the vessel should have foreseen the danger posed by the wind and moored before raising sail. The founder of the Boy Scouts movement, Sir Robert Baden-Powell, and the headquarters of the Sea Scouts Association sent their condolences.

A memorial monument, sculpted by James E Proudfoot, was erected above the grave. A square enclosure of granite kerb stones includes six small headstones with the names and ages of each person who died in the accident. At the centre stands a Celtic cross, measuring 14 feet in height, 47 inches in width and 36 inches in thickness. The cross stands on a tapered plinth, the front face of which holds the inscription:

BE PREPARED/ TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND/ IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF/ THORNTON WROTTESLEY PENDARVES LORY,/ (SCOUT MASTER AND DISTRICT SECRETARY)/ AND FIVE MEMBERS OF THE 1ST CARLTON ST MARKS./ PATROL OF SEA SCOUTS (BADEN POWELLS.)/ CALLED TO HIGHER SERVICE THROUGH A BOAT ACCIDENT/ ON JUNE 1ST 1914./ ''TAKE YE HEED WATCH AND PRAY/ FOR YE KNOW NOT WHEN THE TIME IS.'' ST MARK XVI V 33. ''Be Prepared'' is the Scout motto. Between the date and quotation of the inscription is a circle with a dot in the centre, the Scout tracking symbol for ''gone home'', commonly used in Scout obituaries of the period.


The sole survivor of the accident, Stanley Wood, joined the British Army during the First World War. He apparently originally joined the local Suffolk Regiment but was drafted into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry alongside a number of other men from the Lowestoft and Oulton areas. Wood served in the 2nd/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion and was promoted to the rank of lance corporal. He was killed in action during the 19th July 1916 Attack at Fromelles, part of the ''Battle of the Somme''. The battalion was struck by heavy German machine gun fire and 322 of 642 men were killed and wounded; Wood's body was never found. Wood's name was added to the rear of the plinth and the Carlton Colville Scouts Memorial was dedicated on 29th September 1918 by the Bishop of Norwich Bertram Pollock. The additional inscription reads ''STANLEY WOOD/ PATROL LEADER/ SAVED TO SERVE/ DIED FOR ENGLAND/ AT THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME, JULY 1916/ AGED 19''.

Wood is also remembered on the Loos Memorial to the missing in France. A ceremony to mark the centenary of the drownings was held at the memorial in 2014 and a new memorial plaque installed within the church. The Carlton Colville Scouts Memorial received statutory protection as a grade II listed building on 24th June 2016 as part of commemorations of the centenary of the start of the ''Battle of the Somme''.

Information sourced from – en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlton_Colville_Scouts_Memorial

The Shire Hall was built in 1820, it's a structure of brick, consisting of a centre and two wings, the former contains apartments for holding the courts and public meetings, the north wing is appropriated partly as an armoury for the H Company 3rd (Cambridgeshire) Volunteer Battalion Suffolk Regiment and the south wing forms a police station, the hall will hold about 250 persons.

At Fore Hill is a reading room for the public and volunteers (Kelly, 1896). A Militia barracks also stood in Silver street. Apparently the Regimental HQ, Armoury RQMS Office and Stores, stables, cells and guard room can be seen on Silver street. Quarters for the RQMS and the Sergeants' married quarters are on The Range, with the Infirmary at the end, the married quarters for NCO's and other ranks are on Parade Lane and the former Parade Ground is now the car park on Barton Road.

The Drill Hall was opened in 1939 by General R.M. Luckcock for ‘B’ Company, 1st Battalion the Cambridgeshire Regiment of the Territorial Army. The building was built on the corner of the old Militia drill field that extended along Parade Lane to Silver Street. A rare surviving example of this type of military building. Occupying a prominent location, in a predominantly residential area the building is included for its architectural and historic interest.


Information sourced from –
local-heritage-list.org.uk/asset/11010
drillhalls.org/Counties/Cambridgeshire/TownEly.htm

Photographed in Normandy around 1998. From a 35mm negative scan.

Photographed in Normandy around 1998. From a 35mm negative scan.

(Date and text revised June 2021 in light of new research re electric street-lamp.)

Postcard: Smiths (Suit All series) 1204P - Woodbridge Cross Corner

Postmark: apparently Woodbridge 23 May 1915 [Whit Sunday]

Recipient: No 4108, Private G. Freeman, Suffolk Regiment, V.A.D. Hospital, Corsham, Wiltshire

Sender: Old Pal Jack, 13 Victoria Rd

Message:

Dear Old Tubby
Just a Card to let you know I am going on A1, now. hope you are doing the same. I will leave you a hod or two as I mustnt get to much so it will be a quiet Whitsun Will write a letter after the holiday
[P.S. (at top):]
Canot find a Card with more pubs on
Light or Dark Tolly

Picture:

Traffic director William George Palmer (1846-1923?) is presumably demonstrating his STOP signal rather than waving at the camera. On the opposite corner of Cumberland Street, a Post Office delivery boy stands by his bicycle below a new street-light and a sign (the royal arms in scarlet on a white background) announcing the availability of a public telephone. Another new light, apparently with an electric bulb, is mounted on a very tall post, perhaps conveying a cable from Church Street. This has replaced the old gas lamp outside the Cross, a familiar feature of earlier postcards. Overhead mains had been installed from the power station on the Bredfield Road to all the principal parts of Woodbridge by the autumn of 1913, when it was foreseen that "ere Christmas dawns all residents desirous will be able to be supplied with the electric current" (Lambert's Family Almanack for 1914, page 33). A résumé of local events in Lambert's almanac for 1915 includes some highly illuminating information under 26 November 1913: "Electric lamp at the Cross Corner 'switched on'" (page 11).

In the distance (on the wall of 13 Thoroughfare) a board next to the bay window appears to advertise the outfitter, hatter and hosier John Alfred Sturgeon. He probably moved from Colchester in 1913 or late 1912 (Lambert's Family Almanack for 1913, page 43, annotated: Findmypast image 23), taking the place of Mr W. Adams, to whom Mr C. Markwell had transferred the business in 1910 or late 1909 (Lambert's Family Almanack for 1911, page 31).

The name above the doors of the Cross is H. Hubbard. Licensed victualler Harry Hubbard died in December 1913 but his widow, Jessie, may have continued to trade for a while as Mrs H. Hubbard. Frederick B. Goodall is listed there in Kelly's 1916 Suffolk directory (page 594).

Sidney James Day was was born on 3rd. July 1891 at 4 St. Anne's Lane, off King's Street, Norwich, a property that was demolished in the 1930's. Sidney came from 'humble origins', his father was a labourer and later head cellarman at Morgan's Brewery. Sidney was the youngest of eight children, he had two brothers and five sisters. Three of his siblings did not survive childhood.
Sidney was educated at St. Mark's School, Lakenham and was a member of St. Mark's Company, Church Lads' Brigade.
He was employed as an apprentice butcher in Norwich and later at Saxmundham, Suffolk.
Sidney enlisted on 19th. September 1914 (service number 15092) and was attached to the 9th. Suffolk's at Shoreham, West Sussex on 21st. September. He was appointed an unpaid Lance Corporal on 12th. August 1915 and went to France with his Battalion on 31st. August.
At Loos on 26th. September Sidney rescued Lt. Thomas Tearle Stevens but the officer was shot dead in his arms as he was being carried to safety. On 1st. December he was promoted to Lance Corporal.
At the Battle of the Somme on 18th. September 1916, Sidney was shot four times, in the left chest, thigh, side and buttock. The following day he was evacuated back to Britain and treated at the Norfolk War Hospital, Norwich. He transferred to the 3rd. Battalion on the 19th. March and when fully recovered returned to France on 9th. June. He transferred to the 11th. Battalion the following month and was promoted to Corporal on 17th. August.
On 26th. August 1917, at Malakhoff Farm, east of Hargicourt, Sidney was in command of a bombing section detailed to clear a maze of trenches still held by the Germans. This he did, killing two machine gunners and taking four prisoners Immediately after he returned to his section a stick bomb fell into a trench occupied by five men, one badly wounded. Sidney sized the bomb and threw it over the trench where it immediately exploded. He afterwards completed the clearance of the German trenches and established himself in an advanced position, remaining for 66 hours at his post which came under heavy fire.
Sidney was granted leave in December which was extended by the War Office to 11th. January 1918 due to his wounds and to be able to attend his investiture.
The Victoria Cross was presented to him by King George V at Buckingham Palace on 9th. January 1918.

For the award of the Victoria Cross, London Gazette, 17th. October 1917.

Hargicourt, France, 26th. August 1917, Corporal Sidney James Day, 11th. ( Service ) Battalion, Suffolk Regiment ( Cambridgeshire ).

For most conspicuous bravery. Corporal Day was in command of a bombing section ( East of Hargicourt, France ) detailed to clear a maze of trenches still held by the enemy; this he did, killing two machine gunners and taking four prisoners.
On reaching a point where the trench had been levelled, he went alone and bombed his way through to the left, in order to gain touch with the neighbouring troops. Immediately on his return to his section a stick bomb fell into a trench occupied by two officers ( one badly wounded ) and three other ranks. Corporal Day seized the bomb and threw over the trench, where it immediately exploded.

This prompt action undoubtedly saved the lives of those in the trench. He afterwards completed the clearing of the trench, and, establishing himself in an advanced position, remained for sixty-six hours at his post, which came under intense hostile shell and rifle grenade fire.

Throughout the whole operations his conduct was an inspiration to all.

The following day he was admitted to Lakenham Military Hospital, Norwich and then to Bury St. Edmonds Military Hospital on 26th. January.
On 7th. April Sidney returned to the 11th. Battalion in France. On 10th. April at Erquinghem he went missing in action, having been wounded by a bullet through his right thumb. His family were informed on 7th.June that he was a POW held at a camp at Langensalza, Thuringia, Germany, where he received medical treatment for his wound.
On 23rd. December 1918, Sidney was repatriated back to Britain through Hull. He was demobilised to the Class Z Reserve on 19th. April 1919 and awarded a disability pension.
Sidney was a member of the VC Guard at the Interment of the Unknown Warrior on 11th. November 1920.
As a civilian Sidney returned to butchery and other jobs in Norwich before moving to Portsmouth in the early 1930's and opening a tearoom in Portsea. On 21st. June 1939 Sidney married Doris Edna Grey nee Ellis, they had a son, Michael, born 24th. February 1943.
Sidney and Doris lived above their tearoom until 1941 when it was destroyed in the Blitz. Following the loss of the tearoom Sidney worked as a dockyard messenger until suffering from tuberculosis and retiring on 9th. March 1956.
He died at Queen Alexanders Hospital, Cosham, Hampshire on 17th. July 1959 and is buried in Milton Cemetery, Portsmouth.

Medal entitlement of Corporal Sidney Day, 11th Battalionn, Suffolk Regiment

Victoria Cross
1914-15 Star
British War Medal ( 1914-20 )
Victory Medal ( 1914-19 )
King George VI Coronation Medal ( 1937 )
Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal ( 1953 )

The Victoria Cross and campaign medals awarded to Corporal Sidney Day were sold at auction by Dix Noonan Webb on the 28th. February 2018. The estimated sale price was between £120,000 and £140,000. The sale hammer price realised £160,000.
The Sidney Day Victoria Cross group was purchased by the Michael Ashcroft Trust on behalf of the Lord Ashcroft VC Collection. The group will go on display in the Imperial War Museum's Lord Ashcroft Gallery

On Saturday 26th. August 2017 a commemorative paving stone in honour of Corporal Sidney Day VC was unveiled adjacent to the Norwich City War Memorial. Almost exactly 100 years prior to this date, on the 24th. August 1917, Sidney Day earnt his Victoria Cross through outstanding heroism at Malakhoff Farm, Hargicourt..