State: Victoria, Australia
Issued on: Departure
Date of presentation: 14/02/1901
Number issued: 4
Gold lockets, to:
5th Victorian (Mounted Rifles) Contingent –
1079 Quartermaster-Sergeant John SYMMONDS [Simmons]
849 Corporal Walter William Mitchell JUDD
1068 Corporal Joseph SLATER
1634 Shoeing-Smith James RANKIN
Presentation made by Sub-Inspector Hillard, on behalf of the Melbourne Metropolitan Police, at Langwarrin Camp.
Corporal Slater received a gold medal from the inhabitants of Cheshunt on his return.
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Melbourne Argus, 15th February 1901
Sub-Inspector Hillard, Sergeant Davidson, Senior-Constable Keane, and other members of the police force visited Langwarrin camp yesterday for the purpose of making a presentation of four gold lockets, on behalf of the metropolitan police, to Quartermaster-Sergeant SIMMONS, Corporal JUDD, and Privates SLATER and RANKIN, who resigned from the police force to volunteer for service in South Africa. Subsequently Mr S.B. Jones and Mr George Smith presented Private RANKIN with a case containing two silver-mounted pipes, on behalf of the Orange Institution, of which he is a member.
Ballarat Star, 15th February 1901
Police-constables JUDD, SLATER, SIMMONS, and RANKIN, who have been selected for South African service, and are going with the fifth contingent tomorrow, were this afternoon presented with a gold medal each by their comrades in the force. The presentation took place at Langwarrin Camp, and was made by Inspector Hillard, Sergeant William Davidson, Senior-Constable Keane, Senior-Constable Spillane, and Constable Byers. Constable RANKIN was until recently attached to the police force at Ballarat East.
