The First World War Victoria Cross winner whose tea rooms were bombed to bits in the Second World War

Having suffered five wounds and been taken prisoner in the First World War, fortune could have smiled more favourably on Victoria Cross winner Corporal Sidney Day by the time the 1939-45 conflict came around.

Day planned to lead a quiet life by opening a tea rooms in Portsmouth – only for his business and ho…

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