State: Victoria, Australia
Issued on: Return
Date of presentation: 07/09/1901
Number issued: 1
Gold medal, suitably inscribed, to:
4th Victorian (Imperial Bushmen's) Contingent –
395 Trooper James Circuit LANGLEY (of Brown Hill)
Presentation made by Mr D. Brown, at the Royal Oak Hotel, Peel Street, Ballarat.
Obverse with a shield bearing crossed arms, surrounded by a wreath and surmounted by a lion.
Reverse: "Presented to Saddler J.C. Langley, on his return from South Africa by his friends on Black Hill, on 6th September, 1901".
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Melbourne Age, 9th September 1901
RETURNED SOLDIERS.
BALLARAT. – Trooper J.C. LANGLEY, of Brown Hill, who served with the Bushmen in South Africa, was on Saturday night entertained at the Royal Oak Hotel, Peel Street, and presented with a gold medal of beautiful design, suitably inscribed.
Ballarat Star, 10th September 1901
PRESENTATION TO A RETURNED SOLDIER.
A meeting of the friends of Mr J.C. LANGLEY, jun., a returned member of the Victorian Imperial Bushmen, was held at Lovitt’s hotel last Friday evening. Mr D. Brown occupied the chair, and Mr F. Furlong was the vice-chairman. During the evening Mr LANGLEY was presented by the chairman with a gold medal, bearing the following inscription: – "Presented to Saddler J.C. Langley, on his return from South Africa by his friends on Black Hill, on 6th September, 1901". On the other side was a shield bearing crossed arms, with a wreath around it, and surmounted by a lion. Mr LANGLEY suitably responded. Mr Nettleton spoke of the admirable qualities of the returned soldier, and eulogised the men who went to South Africa and risked their lives in defence of the Empire. A toast was drunk in silence to the men who had fallen in South Africa. Songs were given at intervals by Messrs D. Brown, F.H.P. Furlong, Young, sen. and jun., Nightingale, S. Taylor, Gilligan, and Sampson, and the proceedings concluded by the singing of Auld Lang Syne.
