State: Ontario
Issued on: Return
Date of presentation: 11/02/1901
Number issued: 1
Gold watch, chain & locket, suitably inscribed, to:
"D" (Special Service) Battery, Royal Canadian Artillery –
336 Driver Joseph Alexander BROWN
Subscribed for by fellow-members of the Idependent Order of Oddfellows, and the citizens of Clarksburg.
Presentation made during a banquet at the Queen's Hotel, Clarksburg.
Obverse with insignia of the I.O.O.F.
Reverse: "PRESENTED / To / J.A. BROWN / ON HIS RETURN / FROM THE WAR / SOUTH AFRICA / BY / THE CITIZENS OF / CLARKSBURG".
Brantford Daily Expositor, 12/02/1901
Brown, 1991, pp. 19 & 20
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Brantford Daily Expositor, 12th February 1901
Another Hero Honored.
Clarksburg, Feb. 12.
Last evening Trooper J.A. BROWN, of the Second contingent, who lately returned from South Africa, was banqueted by the residents of Clarksburg, Thornbury and surrounding country at the Queen’s Hotel here, and made the recipient of a gold watch and chain and locket.
