State: Queensland, Australia
Issued on: Departure
Dates of presentations: 26/02/1900
Number issued: 1
Dates of presentations: 26/02/1900
Number issued: 1
Silver medal, to:
3rd Queensland (Mounted Infantry) Contingent –
227 Trooper Edwin HUXTABLE
Presented by members of the Brisbane Fire Brigade, of which he was late superintendent.
Obverse with fireman's helmet and "26.2.1900".
Reverse: "Presented by United V.F.B. Brisbane / To Trooper E. Huxtable / on his departure to S Africa".
Huxtable example sold through Dix Noonan Webb, 19/05/2021.
Trooper Huxtable
The Queenslander, 03/03/1900 (portrait 227)
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Tiverton Gazette, 24th April 1900
DEVONIANS AND THE WAR.
IN THE MAFEKING RELIEF COLUMN.
The Queenslander of March 13th [sic] contains the following, with a photo of Mr Edwin HUXTABLE, brother of Messrs J.C. and C.G.P. Huxtable, of South Molton, who left home for Brisbane about 12 years ago – “Mr HUXTABLE volunteered to do battle for his old country with the 3rd Australian contingent, now at Beira, South Africa. Mr HUXTABLE was, before he left South Molton, for many years a member of the South Molton Volunteer Corps. Before leaving Brisbane for the front, he was the recipient of several handsome presents. The Masonic Lodge of Toowong, of which he was a member, presented him with a splendid silver match box, suitably engraved; a few old friends a silver-mounted pipe; and the Fire Brigade, of which he was the late Superintendent, presented him with a silver medal. The presents were presented at a large meeting, where £114 was collected for the whole contingent”.
