County: Argyllshire
Issued on: Return
Date of presentation: 21/05/1901
Number issued: 8 or 9
Silver medals, to:
Extracted from list of Campbeltown Volunteers who received their QSA's at Oban on 11/09/1901
Volunteers Active Service Company, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders –
7322 Corporal A. ARMOUR
7323 Private W. GILLESPIE (K.I.A., Krondale Camp, 01/10/1900 - did his family receive a medal?)
7325 Private P. KELLY
7326 Private J. McCALLUM
7331 Private D. McKENDRICK [S. Macendrick]
???? Private N. MACKIECHEN (Southend; no record found)
7330 Private Thomas MOFFAT (Southend)
7332 Private William PURVES
7277 Private James SMITH (not on list, but responded to toast to the volunteers)
Presentation made by Provost Mitchell, at the Mercat Cross in Main Street, Campbeltown.
KNOWN EXAMPLES HIGHLIGHTED IN GREEN
Obverse: "SOUTH AFRICAN WAR / 1900-1901".
Reverse: "PRESENTED BY THE PROVOST, MAGISTRATES AND COUNCILLORS OF THE ROYAL BURGH OF CAMPBELTOWN / IN RECOGNITION OF SERVICES IN THE FIELD / [PRIVATE THOMAS MOFFAT]".
Case gold-blocked: "For Gallantry in the Field, / South Africa, / 1900-1901. / AWARDED TO / [PRIVATE THOMAS MOFFAT]".
Moffat example sold through Seaby's Coin & Medal Bulletin, October 1948, for 35/- (in original case of issue).
Moffat example sold through Dix Noonan Webb, 23/09/2011, for £3,400 (in original case of issue).
Purves example held in the collection of the National Army Museum, London (NAM. 1997-11-57). This is the medal illustrated in Hibbard.
Coin & Medal Bulletin, 00/10/1948
Hibbard #C5
NAM. 1997-11-57
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Glagow Herald, 13th January 1900
(list of Campbeltown Volunteers sellected for active service - some did not embark)
CAMPBELTOWN.
Of the draft of 12 men selected from the Campbeltown Companies of the 5th Volunteer Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders for active service and for reserve duty, 11 have passed the final medical examination, and are expected to take their departure for the front in the course of a fortnight or three weeks.
The men are: – Lance-Corporal W. GILLESPIE, Privates J. McCALLUM, T. MOFFAT, J.E. PURVES, W. PURVES, D. McKENDRICK, N. McNIVEN, P. KELLY, H. MONTEITH, A. ARMOUR, and Piper J. McMILLAN.
Highland News, 25th May 1901
RETURN OF VOLUNTEERS FROM THE FRONT. – Five men of the Campbeltown contingent of active service Volunteers, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, got a most enthusiastic reception on arrival home on Tuesday afternoon last, when the town was en fete in honour of the occasion. The Volunteers were met at the pier by the local companies of the 5th V.B. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and the Artillery Volunteers, a large number of townspeople also being present. The Volunteers, on disembarking, got a great ovation. They were joined by the three Volunteers who had already returned from the front, and were escorted by the combined body of Rifle and Artillery Volunteers round the town and outskirts and back to the Mercat Cross in Main Street, where they were received by the Town Council. Provost Mitchell presented each of the active service men with handsome solid silver medals, suitably inscribed, given by the Provost, Magistrates, and Councillors. Major J.N. Mactaggart, officer commanding, returned thanks on behalf of the Volunteers for the enthusiastic reception accorded and medals presented. The active service men were afterwards entertained in the Victoria Hall, where their healths were proposed by Provost Mitchell and cordially pledged. Private James SMITH responded. Other toasts were given.
Aberdeen Press & Journal, 13th September 1901
(list of Volunteers who received their QSA's at Oban on 11/09/1901)
The following are the names of the recipients: –
Captain MACARTHUR; Corporal ARMOUR, Campbeltown; P. KELLY, Campbeltown; J. McCALLUM, Campbeltown; N. MACKIECHEN, Southend; S. MACENDRICK, Campbeltown; T. MOFFAT, Southend; A. SCRIMGEOUR, Dunoon; H. STEWART, Dunoon; A. WALKER, Dunoon; D. LIVINGSTON, Ballachulish; D. GILLESPIE, Campbeltown (killed).
