Country: New Zealand
Issued on: Departure
Date of presentation: 05/04/1902
Number issued: 1
Gold locket, to:
10th New Zealand Mounted Rifles –
Captain William Scott PENNYCOOK
Subscribed for by late colleagues on the "Clutha Leader".
Presentation made "around the stone" (Clutha Leader, 08/04/1902).
Lieut.-Colonel Pennycook, 2nd Bn. Otago Regiment, was killed in action, France, 24/08/1918.
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Clutha Leader, 8th April 1902
The members of The Leader staff met "around the stone" on Saturday morning to mark the esteem in which they hold one who for many years has been manager in the composing and printing department — Captain W. S. PENNYCOOK, on the eve of his departure to take up a captaincy in the Tenth Contingent. Mr W. Battrick, in asking Captain PENNYCOOK to accept a gold locket as a small token of their esteem, referred to the high opinion entertained of him, and hoped that he would return from the war in good health and crowned with honours. Captain PENNYCOOK thanked the staff heartily for their good wishes, and hoped that while in South Africa he would be able to do his duty, and fully maintain the good name that Clutha has already obtained. He hoped they would all have a prosperous and happy time during his absence.
Otago Witness, 16th April 1902
Captain PENNYCOOK, of Balclutha, who has received a commission in the Tenth Contingent, was on Saturday presented with a gold locket by his late colleagues on the Clutha Leader. The Clutha Mounted Rifles also gave Mr PENNYCOOK a presentation in the shape of a pair of field glasses.
