County: Gloucestershire
Issued on: Departure
Date of presentation: 20/11/1899
Number issued: 1
Silver chain & pendant, suitably inscribed, to:
3rd Bn. Gloucester Regiment (Reserve) –
3226 Private Alfred PINCHIN (recalled but did not sail - medically unfit)
Presentation made at the Midlands Railway Station (Lansdown Station), Cheltenham.
Obverse with recipient's initials.
Reverse: " ‘An Absent-minded Beggar’, Lansdown Staff, 20/11/99".
Supplied by Messrs Furber.
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Cheltenham Echo, 20th November 1899
PRESENTATIONS TO RESERVISTS.
Private Alfred PINCHIN has been presented by the employees at the Midland Railway Station with a handsome silver chain, matchbox, and pendant, engraved with the recipient’s initials on one side and on the reverse side “ ‘An Absent-minded Beggar’, Lansdown Staff, 20/11/99”.
The chain, &c., was supplied by Messrs Furber.
