County: Kirkcudbrightshire
Issued on: Departure
Date of presentation: January 1900
Number issued: 3
Silver medals, to:
Volunteer Active Service Company, King's Own Scottish Borderers –
7008 Private Michael CROSSAN [W. Crossan]
7010 Private John P. DRYDEN
7009 Private Robert MILLIGAN
The gift of Ex-Provost Cowan, Kirkcudbright.
Obverse: "TOLBOOTH, KIRKCUDBRIGHT".
Reverse: "PRESENTED BY / EX PROVOST COWAN / TO / [PT. J.P. Dryden]. A Co. G.R.V. / On his volunteering for / Active Service in S.A. / JANY. 1900".
"On the one side is an inscription, with the name of the Volunteer, bearing that it has been presented by ex-Provost Cowan on his volunteering for active service in South Africa, January, 1900. On the other side is a beautiful representation of the Old Tolbooth, with the clock (presented to the town by ex-Provost Cowan) and the ancient Market Cross".
Dryden example illustrated in Hibbard.
Dumfries and Galloway Standard, 07/021900
Hibbard #C11
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Dumfries and Galloway Standard, 7th February 1900
Ex-Provost Cowan, Kirkcudbright, has generously presented a handsome silver medal to each of the men who have volunteered from A Company Galloway Rifles for active service in South Africa - Privates CROSSAN, DRYDEN, and MILLIGAN. On the one side is an inscription, with the name of the Volunteer, bearing that it has been presented by ex-Provost Cowan on his volunteering for active service in South Africa, January, 1900. On the other side is a beautiful representation of the Old Tolbooth, with the clock (presented to the town by ex-Provost Cowan) and the ancient Market Cross. The gift is one that the men will cherish and be proud of, and it was a thoughtful and kindly act of the ex-Provost to remember them in such a way on the eve of their leaving for the front. The medals, which are enclosed in handsome cases, were despatched to Berwick on Monday. Mr M'Skimming, watchmaker and jeweller, St Mary Street, executed the order, which is creditable in every way to him.
