State: New South Wales, Australia
Issued on: Departure
Date of presentation: 23/04/1900
Number issued: 1
Gold double albert & pendant, to:
"F" Company, New South Wales Imperial Bushmen –
884 Private Robert George NEWLANDS [Newland]
Presentation made by Mr Hassall, Minister for Lands, on Sydney wharf [Woolloomooloo Bay], prior to emarkation on the transport Armenian.
Inscribed (Australian Star): "Presented to Trooper R.G. Newland by his Boggabilla friends to mark the occasion of his volunteering for active service In the Transvaal".
Inscribed (Sydney Morning Herald): "Presented to R.G. Newlands by his Boggabilla friends as a souvenir on the occasion of his volunteering for active service in the Transvaal".
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Australian Star, 24th April 1900
A PRESENTATION.
While the men were at the wharf the opportunity was taken by the Minister for Lands to make a presentation to one of the contingent, who hails from the far Inland town of Boggabilla. The trooper in question was R.G. NEWLAND [sic], and the presentation, which came from his friends of the northwest, was in the form of a double gold albert, with a gold pendant attached, on which was Inscribed: "Presented to Trooper R.G. Newland [sic] by his Boggabilla friends to mark the occasion of his volunteering for active service In the Transvaal".
Sydney Morning Herald, 24th April 1900
PRESENTATION TO A BUSHMAN.
After the arrival of the contingents Woolloomooloo Bay yesterday Mr Hassall (the Minister for Lands) made a presentation is one of the men. The Minister acted for the friends of Trooper R.G. NEWLANDS, the latter being the recipient. The present was a gold albert, with a gold pendant, on which was inscribed the following – "Presented to R.G. Newlands by his Boggabilla friends as a souvenir on the occasion of his volunteering for active service in the Transvaal".
