Wilfred Days was born in Birmingham, on 26th October 1884, a son of Albert and Charlotte Elizabeth Days. In 1911, aged 16, he was living with his family at Gorse Farm, Broadway (now Gallipot Farm). The only information concerning his Army service to survive is that he was a Private (No 29138) in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He enlisted in 1916, went to Salonika and served in the Balkans, where he was trained to use the Lewis gun. Both the 7th and 8th (Service) Battalions of the Regiment were sent to Salonika in 1915, so Wilfred Days would have been in one of these. He was wounded by shrapnel when fighting the Bulgarian Army and, whilst in hospital, he contracted dysentery. He was then evacuated to Malta. After returning to England, he later served in the north of Ireland before being discharged after the end of the War. He was awarded the Victory and British War medals.
Wilfred Days had bought 2 acres of orchards on Pitchers Hill, Wickhamford by the time the 1941 Farm Register was compiled, and he lived in a bungalow just out of the village on the Broadway Road. After the Second World War he moved to Whitechapel Farm, Broadway Road. He died, whilst living in Henry Street, Evesham, on 14th November 1994, when he had just passed his 100th birthday. He was probably the last surviving veteran of the Great War with Wickhamford connections.