County: Fife
Issued on: Departure
Date of presentation: 09/03/1901
Number issued: 1
Gold medal, to:
South African Constabulary –
???? Corporal R. GURRADGE (no record found)
Presentation made at the Drill Hall, Hunter Street, Kirkcaldy.
Inscribed: "Presented to Corporal R. Gurradge by the Kirkcaldy Volunteer Artillery; March, 1901".
Fife Free Press (09/03/1901): "We understand that application was made to have this honour [Freedom of the Burgh] conferred upon Corporal Gurradge, but the Council apparently have not seen their way to do so".
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Fife Free Press, 9th March 1901
LOCAL ARTILLERYMAN FOR BADEN-POWELL’S POLICE.
Corporal R. GURRADGE, of No. 3 Company 1st F.V.A., will be entertained tonight in the Drill Hall, Hunter Street, by his comrades prior to his departure for South Africa to join Baden-Powell’s Police Force. Corporal GURRADGE has served in the Company for the past six years, and during that time he has proved himself to be a thoroughly good meaning volunteer. He is to be presented with a substantial kit of underclothing, and a beautiful gold medal with the inscription – “Presented to Corporal Gurradge by the Kirkcaldy Volunteer Artillery; March, 1901”. It was expected that he would have received the freedom of the burgh like the other volunteers who have joined the service companies in South Africa. We understand that application was made to have this honour conferred upon Corporal GURRADGE, but the Council apparently have not seen their way to do so.
