County: Monmouthshire
Issued on: Return
Date of presentation: 17/12/1902
Number issued: 1 (?)
Gold medal(s), to:
2nd Bn. South Wales Borderers (Reserve) –
3292 Private Frederick MALPASS
and other Nantyglo & Blaina returned volunteers and reservists (?)
Obverse with recipient's monogram: "FM".
Reverse: "NANTYGLO & BLAINA / DEC 17TH 1902 / PRESENTED TO / Mr Fred Malpas [sic] / BY HIS FRIENDS / ON HIS RETURN FROM THE / SOUTH AFRICAN WAR".
As of Jan 2023, I have been unable to find any report of this presentation. Possibly unique, though other reservists certainly went to the front from the Nantyglo & Blaina District (see below).
Frederick Malpass example sold through Rogers Jones & Co., Auctioneers, 03/02/2023, for £850 (with QSA & KSA)
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South Wales Echo, 25th November 1899
Nantyglo and the War.
At a public meeting, held at the Victoria Rooms last evening, a committee, with Alderman G.R. Harris, Councillors T. Treharne, and Messrs J. Walters and W. Blunt as president, treasurer, and secretaries respectively, was appointed to receive subscriptions for the relief of the families of local Reservists who have left for the front.
