County: Lanarkshire
Issued on: Return
Date of presentation: 14/06/1901
Number issued: 1
Gold medal, to:
Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (Reserve) –
2895 Private James DUDGEON
Obverse with recipient’s monogram: “JD”.
Reverse: "PRESENTED / TO / PRIVATE J. DUDGEON, A&SH / BY THE / INHABITANTS OF LAW / ON HIS RETURN / FROM THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR / 4TH JUNE, 1901".
Presentation made by Dr Robert Paterson, on Law Moor, near Carluke.
Dudgeon example held in the Collection of the National Army Museum, London (1997-11-66).
Journal of the OMRS, 1998, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 138-146 (Upfill-Brown)
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Hamilton Herald, 21st June 1901
LAW.
VOLUNTEER’S RETURN. – A public meeting was held on the Law Moor, near Carluke, on Friday night, when a presentation was made to Private James DUDGEON, of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, on his return from the South African War. Dr Robert Paterson, in name of the inhabitants, presented Private DUDGEON with a handsome gold medal, suitably inscribed, and a purse of sovereigns.
