County: Banffshire
Issued on: Return
Date of presentation: 00/05/1901
Number issued: ?
Silver gilt medal(s), to:
2nd Volunteer Active Service Company, Gordon Highlanders ["G" Company, 6th V.B.G.H.] –
163 Private Colin PEDDER
and other Cornhill/Ordiquhill volunteers?
No report of this presentation has been found.
Obverse with the badge and motto of the Gordon Highlanders: "BYDAND".
Reverse: "PRESENTED TO / VOLUNTEER / Pte. Colin Pedder / of "G" Co. 6th V.B. G.H. / BY PARISH COUNCIL OF ORDIQUHILL / & FRIENDS IN RECOGNITION OF / HIS SERVICES WITH THE / GORDON HIGHLANDERS / IN SOUTH AFRICA / 1900-1901".
Note: the obverse of this medal appears to have been struck from the same die as that used for the Huntly tribute. The same may also be true of the Ythan Wells medal (unseen, but described as "the Gordon crest of a stag's head encircled in ivy, and underneath the motto, Bydand"). Huntly, Cornhill & Ythan Wells are within 15 miles of one another.
Obverse of the Huntly medal (left) & Ordiquhill medal (right).
Three Cornhill men who returned in 1902 did not receive medals. Instead they were given gold scarf pins and inscribed silver-mounted ebony walking sticks. Interestingly, Colin Pedder was on the reception committee for this later reception. See Huntly Express, 31/10/1902.
Note: Cornhill is an alternative name for Ordiquhill.
Private Pedder had already received a silver deaprture medal from the Cornhill Volunteers.
Pedder example sold through Dix Noonan Webb, 11/12/2013, for £1,250 (with QSA).
Banffshire Reporter, 21/02/1900
Aberdeen People's Journal, 24/02/1900
Aberdeen Journal, 28/02/1900
Aberdeen Press & Journal, 02/05/1901 (Pte Pedder's return - medals not mentioned)
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Group photograph, showing Private Pedder (back row, third from left).
