State: Victoria, Australia
Issued on: Departure
Date of presentation: 28/03/1900
Number issued: 2
Gold lockets, to:
4th Victorian (Imperial Bushmen's) Contingent –
579 Private William TIDYMAN
??? M. LAUENSTEIN (no record found - may not have embarked for S. Africa)
Subscribed for by fellow members of the Chiltern Fire Brigade.
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Ovens and Murray Advertiser, 31st March 1900
On Wednesday the members of the Chiltern Fire Brigade hurriedly organised a send-off to the two members who have been selected for the Imperial Bushmen's Corps, Apparatus Officer Wm. TIDYMAN and Fireman M. LAUENSTEIN, who were presented with handsome gold lockets by the brigade, and with silver-mounted pipes by Mr Henry Chrisfield. As the train containing the men selected for the contingent — W. TIDYMAN, M. LAUENSTEIN, H. CHRISFIELD, Chas. CARLYLE and EDDY — passed the racecourse on Thursday, while the Chiltern races were in progress, fully 2,000 people gathered on both sides of the line, and cheered the departing soldiers.
