County: Stirlingshire
Issued on: Departure
Date of presentation: bef. 20/01/1900
Number issued: 1
Gold badge, to:
Volunteer Active Service Company, 1st Bn. Highland Light Infantry –
8256 Private Robert WATSON
Subscribed for by fellow-employees at Messrs W. Walker & Co.
Later served as 2956 Pte R. Watson, 3rd Bn. H.L.I. (Militia)
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Falkirk Herald, 20th January 1900
LARBERT AND STENHOUSEMUIR.
PRESENTATION. – Mr Robert WATSON, file-cutter with Messrs W. Walker & Co., was the recipient of a handsome gold badge from his fellow-employees this week on the occasion of his going to the front as a Volunteer (1st Lanark), to South Africa.