State: Queensland, Australia
Issued on: Return
Dates of presentations: 13/03/1901, April 1901, 25/06/1901, 14/05/1902, 17/09/1902
Number issued: c. 35
Gold pendant medals, suitably inscribed, to:
13/03/1901 presentation
"A" Company, 1st Queensland (Mounted Infantry) Contingent –
156 Private Joseph J. BANKS
83 Private Charles Henry BOURNE
80 Private Joseph BURGE
50 Private Arthur Archibald CAMERON
79 Private Thomas KENNEDY
47 Private Charles Rupert STEWART (absent - injured)
78 Private Wallace Highton STEWART
36 Private Robert Samuel THOMPSON (absent? - not listed as a recipient in the Darling Downs Gazette)
48 Private Sydney WASHBOURNE
122 Private Albert Joseph WHITE
"B" Company, 1st Queensland (Mounted Infantry) Contingent –
56 Corporal George Bertram CONLEY (K.I.A., Sanna's Post, 31/03/1900 - did his family receive a medal?)
84 Private George Lionel HUTTON (absent? - not listed as a recipient in the Darling Downs Gazette)
2nd Queensland (Mounted Infantry) Contingent –
149 Private Charles COOK
Presentation made by Mr Deacon, in the Protestant Hall, Allora.
April 1901 presentation (unrecorded)
2nd Queensland (Mounted Infantry) Contingent –
76 Private John Edward DONKIN
84 Private Edward Tarplee WHITE [E.J. White]
3rd Queensland (Mounted Infantry) Contingent –
145 Private Walter ROOTES
25/06/1901 presentation
3rd Queensland (Mounted Infantry) Contingent –
256 Sergeant Charles Edwin DEACON
74 Private George NICHOLSON
Presentation made in the Protestant Hall, Allora.
14/05/1902 presentation
4th Queensland (Imperial Bushmen) Contingent –
375 Private Thomas George ALLEN [T.J. Allen] (absent)
135 Private Charles Henry RIDDELL [A. Riddell / Riddle]
153 Private George WEATHERLEY [Weatherly]
5th Queensland (Imperial Bushmen) Contingent –
Lieutenant Lachlan John CASKEY (K.I.A., Makaris Drift, Caledon River, 13/11/1901 - did his family receive a medal?)
20 Corporal William Alexander WIGHTMAN
112 Corporal Dielmann Jacob SMITH [Smidth]
114 Private Martin ALLEN
157 Private John Henry ANDERSON (K.I.A., Oliphant's River, 26/04/1901 - did his family receive a medal?)
194 Private George DAVIDSON
193 Private Albert Thomas SMYTHE [B. Smythe] (absent - possibly the missing tenth 17/09/1902 recipient)
113 Private William WALL
Presentation made by the Mayor.
17/09/1902 presentation
6th Queensland (Imperial Bushmen) Contingent –
233 Private Matthew GEANEY (died of wounds, Vereeniging, 23/07/1901 - did his family receive a medal?)
39 Private Victor Eugene HEALY [Healey]
104 Private Charles LAMBLEY
121 Private Robert McLEOD
48 Private Ernest WEATHERLEY [Weatherly]
3rd Australian Commonwealth Horse (Qld) –
1867 Private Frederick Charles Hunt LENEY
7th Australian Commonwealth Horse (Qld) –
373 Private Francis Joseph BUXTON
152 Private Charles H. CLARKE
190 Private Arthur MASTERS
227 Private Richard WILSON
Presentation made by the Mayor, in the Protestant Hall, Allora.
"Altogether about thirty have been presented" (Brisbane Courier, 23/09/1902).
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Warwick Argus, 9th February 1901
KILLARNEY WELCOME TO RETURNED SOLDIERS.
The patriotic spirit that prevails in Killarney (writes our correspondent) once more had the opportunity of making itself felt in the splendid reception accorded to Corporal J.C. BROSNAN on Monday night. The event had been previously postponed owing to the death of the Queen. Amid the sound of fog signals the train steamed in, having on board Corp. BROSNAN, accompanied by Privates Jimmy TURNBULL, CAMERON, BURGE, STEWART, BOURNE, and HUTTON (Allora), and Private WALKER (Toowoomba). Lieutenants De CONLAY, SARGENT, and ROWLAND (Warwick) were also on board.
Darling Downs Gazette, 23rd March 1901
On the conclusion of the first part of the programme, the men who had previously occupied seats in the hall, were marched on to the stage by Lieutenant Davies, and as they moved along they received a tremendous ovation. They were as follows :- Pvts. A.A. CAMERON, J. BURGE, T. KENNEDY. A.T. WHITE, W. STEWART, S. WASHBOURNE, J. BANKS, C.H. BOURNE, and C. COOK. Pvt. C.R. STEWART was absent owing to an injury he had received. The Chairman, addressing the men, on behalf of the people of Allora, welcomed them home again; he congratulated them on the manner in which they had acquitted themselves, and referred to different incidents during the war, in which one or other of their men were individually concerned. He referred to the fact that little Allora had sent more men to South Africa than any other town in Queensland. He further said that it had been stated by some in Allora that they were treating the present returned soldiers differently to what they would others yet to come; he thought it was time enough to accuse them of this when they were guilty. They would not forget a single one of their boys and above all they were not going to “make fish of one and flesh of another.” He then presented to each of the men a handsome gold pendant medal, which was suitably inscribed.
The Queenslander, 6th July 1901
ALLORA, June 27.
Last Tuesday afternoon Sergeant DEACON and Private NICHOLSON, of the Allora detachment, returned from South Africa, and were the subjects of a hearty welcome from the inhabitants of this town and district. The men were met at the railway and formally welcomed back by the Mayor (Alderman J.C. Kennedy), who invited them to attend a public social to be held in the Protestant Hall that evening. This meeting was presided over by the Mayor, and was similar in character and enthusiasm to previous welcome meetings. Both men were presented with gold medals as mementoes of their services in South Africa.Brisbane Courier, 19th May 1902
ALLORA, May 15.
Last night Corporals WIGHTMAN and D. SMIDTH [sic] and Privates RIDDLE, ALLEN, WEATHERLY, WALL, and DAVIDSON, who have recently returned from South Africa, were publicly welcomed and presented with medals as a memento of their services in connection with the Boer war. The Mayor presided, and distributed the medals. One interesting fact concerning Private ALLEN is that he was rejected twice by the authorities on account of his youth, but not to be beaten, he stowed himself away on the transport carrying the Fourth Contingent, and was able to get to the front.
Brisbane Courier, 23rd September 1902
ALLORA, September 18.
Last night a wind-up social for returned local soldiers from Africa was held in the Protestant Hall, at which gold medals were presented to ten of the last returned. The Mayor presided and made the presentations. Songs were rendered by some of our local talent, assisted by a Toowoomba friend, and refreshments provided by the committee. A dance bought the proceedings to a close. Credit is due to the committee who took this matter up when the first contingent were returning, and resolved to give a gold medal to each local man as he returned as a memento, and as more kept going as the war dragged on the matter assumed larger responsibilities. Altogether about thirty have been presented, and as each one cost over two guineas it has meant a drain on the patriotic resources of the district, but now that all who have returned have received one there is talk of erecting some statue or memorial to those who have fallen in Africa.
Allora Anglo-Boer Memorial, Allora (courtesy of Dennis Stocks)
