Country: South Africa
Issued on: n/a
Date of presentation: 16/11/1901
Number issued: 1
Gold medal, to:
Oxfordshire Light Infantry [O.C. Mobile Column] –
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert FANSHAWE
Presentation made by General Sir Edward Locke Elliott, at Harrismith.
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Yorke's Peninsula Advertiser, 10th January 1902
News from Lance-Corporal A.G. Wadge, 6th South Australian Contingent.
Yesterday (Sunday) a church parade was held, and after the service General Elliott visited us. He presented Major FRANSHAW [sic] (an English officer) with a gold medal and promoted him to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and presented Lieutenant Langley (of the 5th S.A. Contingent) with the D.S.O for gallant work at Graspan. Lieutenant-Colonel FRANSHAW [sic] gave the whole of the brigade a pint of beer each — that meant 1000 pints — and we drank his health most heartily.
