State: Tasmania
Issued on: Return
Date of presentation: 22/03/1901
Number issued: 1
Gold medal, to:
1st Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen –
62 Trooper Lewis Arthur HERBERT
Presentation made by Mr D. Campbell, in the Town Hall, Cressy.
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Launceston Examiner, 26th Mar 1901
TASMANIAN CONTINGENTS.
CRESSY, Monday.
A social was held in the Town Hall on Friday evening for the purpose of welcoming home Trooper L. A. HERBERT, a member of the Tasmanian quota of the Imperial Australian contingent, who recently returned from South Africa invalided. Mr. D. Campbell presided, and there was a large attendance of residents and friends of the returned soldier. Lieutenant Cole, Sergeant E. H. Lee, Troopers L. A. HERBERT and W. Burton occupied seats on the platform. The stage was artistically decorated with flags. The chairman, on behalf of the residents of Cressy, presented Trooper HERBERT with a gold medal and a purse of money as a memento of his service in South Africa. The recipient in responding thanked the donors for their expression of goodwill, and expressed regret that he had been unable to remain with the contingent until its return to Tasmania. During the evening Misses E. Brumby, Newton, Miller (2), A. Brumby, and Eastoe, Mrs Wilkinson, and Messrs Howard Button, E. Stubbs, and school children contributed a choice programme of vocal and instrumental music, the proceedings terminating with the National Anthem.
Launceston Daily Telegraph, 27 March 1901
CRESSY
On Friday night a welcome social was tendered to Trooper L. HERBERT, who has been invalided home. Mr. D. Campbell occupied the chair. The hall was nicely decorated. Among the audience were Sir Edward Braddon and Mr. H. Dumaresq., M's.H.A. The following programme was gone through: Pianoforte duet, Misses Newton and E. Brumby; song, Miss Eastoe; recitation, Miss E. Miller; song, Mr. J Howard; song and chorus, school children; recitation, Mr. Britton; pianoforte selection, Mrs. Wilkinson; song, Miss Ethel Miller; song, Miss Ada Brumby; recitation, Mr. Britton; song and chorus, school children. The Chairman welcomed Trooper HERBERT back to Cressy, and trusted he would soon be well and vigorous again, and presented him with a gold medal, suitably inscribed, and a purse, in commemoration of his service to the Empire. Trooper HERBERT briefly returned thanks for the present, but said he would very much have liked to remain, and return with his comrades. The proceedings closed with the National Anthem.
