State: Victoria, Australia
Issued on: Return
Date of presentation: 07/05/1902
Number issued: 1
Diamond locket, suitably inscribed, to:
5th Victorian (Mounted Rifles) Contingent –
896 Sergeant-Farrier Thomas James Irwin HARRISON
Presentation made by Mr D. Kerin, in the Mechanics' Hall, Egerton.
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Melbourne Argus, 9th May 1902
EGERTON. – Sergeant-Farrier HARRISON, who left with the Fifth Victorian Contingent, was welcomed home on Wednesday. Mr Couper, captain of the rifle club, presided, and the Mechanics’ Hall was filled, about 400 being present. Apologies from Captain P.C. Chirnside and Mr Holden, M.L.A.’s, were read. Mr D. Kerin, on behalf of the rifle club and residents of the district, presented Sergeant-Farrier HARRISON with a diamond locket, suitably inscribed, for the services he had rendered the empire. Councillors Crowe and Setter were among the speakers.
Ballarat Star, 10th May 1902
A RETURNED SOLDIER.
Farrier-Sergeant HARRISON, of Egerton, one of the returned soldiers, was presented with a gold locket by Mr D. Kerin, on behalf of the subscribers, at the Egerton Mechanics’ Institute last night. The hall was crowded. Subsequently Mr HARRISON was entertained at Setter’s hotel at a banquet.
