County: Inverness-shire
Issued on: Return
Date of presentation: 31/05/1901
Number issued: 2 or 3
Gold medals, to:
Presentation made by Lieutenant McKenzie, in the Drill Hall, Beauly.
Supplied by Mr Chalmers, jeweller, Beauly.
THE RETURNED CAMERONS. – Privates David CAMERON, Donald MACLEAN, and Alick FRASER, of the Beauly Volunteer Company, who have just returned from the front, are to be entertained and presented with gold medals in recognition of their patriotism in volunteering for active service. It is expected that Lord Lovat, who is captain of the Company, will find time to make the presentation, in which case the Volunteers would doubly value the honour bestowed upon them by the Company.
PRESENTATION TO BEAULY VOLUNTEERS.
Privates David CAMERON and David McLEAN, who recently returned from South Africa, where they accompanied the Service Company of the Camerons, were on Friday evening presented with beautiful gold medals by their Beauly comrades of G Company. After drill the entire company was lined up in the Drill Hall, where the presentation was made by Lieutenant McKenzie, who said that their two young friends had struck a high chord of patriotism by going to the front, whence they were all pleased to see them returned looking so fit and well. He trusted they would both remain in the corps of which they had been such distinguished units. He had, he said, extreme pleasure in presenting them with medals as souvenirs of the South African campaign, reminding them that wherever they went these beautiful medals were proof of the value put upon their valour by their comrades at home. Private David CAMERON replied, and said they were most grateful for the gifts, which they would both value highly, and said they would both remain in the corps. Lieut. McKenzie then amid deafening cheers pinned the medals to their breasts, and afterwards a pleasant hour was passed. The medals are of a chaste design, and bear the following inscription – “Presented by G Company Cameron Highlanders for South African campaign, 1901”. They were supplied by Mr Chalmers, jeweller, Beauly.
