County: Lancashire (now Cumbria)
Issued on: Return
Date of presentation: 11/07/1901
Number issued: 4
Gold medals, to:
Volunteer Active Service Company, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment –
7234 Colour-Sergeant Leonard WORRALL
7298 Corporal [Private] George MACHIN
7300 Private David KENDALL [Kendal]
7301 Private A.S. LOWDEN (absent - medal to be forwarded to him in S. Africa)
Obverse with a soldier holding a rifle at ease in front of a cannon; a sailing ship in the background.
Reverse: "Presented to [Corpl. G. Machin] by the Barrow W.M.C. & Institute on his return from the South African War, July 1901".
Subscribed for by fellow members of the Barrow Working Men's Club, Barrow-in-Furness.
Presentation made at the Club.
Machin example held in the collection of the National Army Museum, London (NAM. 1997-11-5).
NAM. 1997-11-5
Journal of the OMRS, 1998, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 138-146 (Upfill-Brown)
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Lancashire Evening Post, 12th July 1901
MEDALS TO BARROW A.S.C.
On Thursday night, at the Barrow Working Men’s Club, three members, namely, Colour-Sergeant WORRALL, and Privates MACHIN and KENDAL [sic], who were out at the front in the Active Service Company, were presented with gold medals. Another member, Private LEWDER [sic], who is staying in Africa, where he has secured a good appointment, will have his medal sent to him.
