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"The comrades of Adam Irving Louthland, a Penrith man, who had been employed in the Windermere district, took part as a member of the 1st Active service Co. of the Border Regiment in the relief of Wepener, and there was wounded in the nose. He went into hospital and was discharged subsequently as cured. Since his return home last February he has occasionally suffered from the effects of the wound, but it was not until a few days ago that the cause of the pain was definitely ascertained. Louthland then went to a local practitioner and the bullet was extracted. His comrades have since had it mounted on a gold medal, on which there is a suitable inscription, and have presented the medal to him."

Lancashire Daily Post, Thursday 5th December 1901


I'm not sure that Louthland is the correct surname. There's nothing online about Louthland being a surname or a place anywhere, there are no birth records for that surname back to 1860, and no death record for the surname up to 1957, anywhere in England and Wales. The surname doesn't exist in Scottish birth and death records.

7197 Adam IRVING - 1st Active Service Coy Border Regt.
No note on medal roll or papers of a wound

Pete

Thanks, Pete. Perhaps Louthland (or Southland) was the name of a farm or house, and the newspaper missed out the important comma.

7197 A Irving Private 1st Border Reg
Wounded (Slightly)near Wepener (Drift) date recorded 8th to 24th April 1900.. SAFF.
Medal roll locations record Kendal & Carlisle on roll
No Louthland......could be Lakeland?

Possibly. I need to look up the Kendal and Penrith papers' reports on this. The Lancashire Daily Post was published in Preston.

I wonder if the medal mentioned survived the last century and if it still remains extant today.

BereniceUK wrote: "The comrades of Adam Irving Louthland, a Penrith man, who had been employed in the Windermere district, took part as a member of the 1st Active service Co. of the Border Regiment in the relief of Wepener, and there was wounded in the nose. He went into hospital and was discharged subsequently as cured. Since his return home last February he has occasionally suffered from the effects of the wound, but it was not until a few days ago that the cause of the pain was definitely ascertained. Louthland then went to a local practitioner and the bullet was extracted. His comrades have since had it mounted on a gold medal, on which there is a suitable inscription, and have presented the medal to him."

Lancashire Daily Post, Thursday 5th December 1901


I'm not sure that Louthland is the correct surname. There's noting online about Louthland being a surname or a place anywhere, there are no birth records for that surname back to 1860, and no death record for the surname up to 1957, anywhere in England and Wales. The surname doesn't exist in Scottish birth and death records.