County: Lancashire
Issued on: Return
Date of presentation: 15/06/1901
Number issued: 7
Gold medals, to:
Volunteer Active Service Company, Manchester Regiment –
7003 Lance-Sergeant [Sergeant] Joseph Thomas VICKERS [J.T.H. Vickers]
7002 Corporal Herbert JONES
7004 Drummer [Bugler] George HENSHAW (absent - unwell)
7007 Private Robert BLINKHORN
7018 Private J. MILLER
7023 Private William RHODES (absent - unwell)
7028 Private Joseph Gregory SWINDELLS
Presentation made by Mrs Hart (daughter of the Mayor), in the Town Hall, Eccles.
Note: The Manchester Evening News (11/06/1901) states that this presentation was to volunteers from "Eccles and Worsley".
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Manchester Evening News, 11th June 1901
ECCLES AND WORSLEY.
Saturday next has been fixed for the reception of the Eccles and Worsley volunteers who have seen active service in South Africa. At five o’clock in the evening the members of the Town Council, the South African War Fund Committee, and the men who volunteered for active service, but who were not accepted, will sit down to tea in the Town Hall, and about an hour afterwards the public reception will take place. It is proposed to give each volunteer who has returned from the war a gold medal commemorative of the event. A smoking concert is also to take place in the Catholic Club on Patricroft Bridge.
Manchester Courier, 17th June 1901
HONOUR TO HEROES.
ECCLES ACTIVE SERVICE VOLUNTEERS RECEIVE MEDALS.
The Mayor and Corporation of Eccles held a reception at the Town Hall, on Saturday, in honour of the Eccles Volunteers who have returned from the war. The Mayor delivered an address of welcome, and his daughter, Mrs Hart, presented gold medals to the seven Active Service men of the G and K Companies, 1st Volunteer Battalion Manchester Regiment – viz., sergeant VICKERS, Corporal JONES, Privates MILLER, BLINKHORN, SWINDELLS, RHODES, and Bugler HENSHAW (the two latter absent owing to sickness). A collation was provided for the Reservists, the Volunteers who were not accepted, officers of the local corps, War Fund Committee, and the Active Service men.
Speeches were made by Major Adams, the Vicar of Eccles, and Mr E.L. Adams, chairman of the War Fund, and the evening concluded with an entertainment and dancing.
