State: South Australia
Issued on: n/a
Date of presentation: May 1900
Number issued: 1
Gold medal, to:
Major-General Robert Stephenson Smyth BADEN-POWELL
Forwarded to Mrs Henrietta Baden-Powell (B-P's mother) by Mr James Shaw, ex-Mayor of Adelaide.
The medal was made from the first gold taken out of Mount Grainger Mine, Peterborough, South Australia.
Adelaide Chronicle, 25/08/1900
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Kalgoorlie Western Argus, 7th June 1900
ADELAIDE, May 31.
Mr James Shaw, an ex-Mayor of Adelaide, is forwarding to Major-General BADEN-POWELL a handsome gold medal made from the first gold taken out of Mount Grainger mine.
Adelaide Chronicle, 25th August 1900
About two months ago Mr James Shaw sent a handsome gold medal to Mrs Baden-Powell, the mother of Major-General Baden-Powell, for the general, in recognition of his services in connection with the defence of Mafeking. Mr Shaw has now received the following letter from Mrs Baden-Powell: — “George's Place, July 20, 1900. Dear Mr Shaw — I thank you much for your kind appreciation of the work done at Mafeking by my son, General Baden-Powell. Your beautiful medal has safely arrived here, and I keep it for the general on his return to England, as South Africa is still too unsettled to send out to him such a precious memento. But I am forwarding to him your letter of June 6, and I am describing to him the exquisite way in which the medal is mounted and its history so clearly told upon it. With heartfelt thanks for your kindness. — Sincerely yours, Henrietta Baden-Powell”.
