Medals and awards

Partick

 

Patrick NAM 1997

 

County: Lanarkshire
Issued on: Departure
Dates of presentations: aft. 05/02/1900, 19/02/1900, 00/00/1900
Number issued: c. 34 ?

 

Gold medals, to:

Aft. 05/02/1900 presentation

Volunteer Active Service Company, 2nd Bn. Scottish Rifles –

7914 Private Robert Fraser SMITH

and 15 other volunteers
 

19/02/1900 presentation

1st Service Section, 1st Lanarkshire Royal Engineers (Vols) –
Major James LANG
6156 [4236] Sapper John LOGAN
6159 [5316] Sapper Kenneth MACMILLAN [McMillan]

6157 [4699] Sapper Robert STEVEN

Presentation made by Provost Wood and Commissioner Lang, at the 1st Lanarkshire Royal Engineers H.Q., Jardine Street, Glasgow.
 

1900 presentations (unrecorded)

18th (Glasgow) Company, 6th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry –

8709 Trooper John Harley MEIKLEJOHN

Royal Army Medical Corps [Glasgow Volunteer Infantry Brigade Bearer Company] –

13320 Corporal W.T. SCOTT

and a further c. 12 yeomen / volunteers

Forwarded to men serving in S. Africa.

 

"We understand that similar medals are being struck and will be forwarded to the members of the other volunteer regiments who belong to Patrick" (Glasgow Herald, 21/02/1900).

"There were in all 34 Volunteers from Partick at the front. The municipality, to mark their gratification with this patriotic response on the part of the Volunteers, had, with the assistance of public-spirited citizens, provided commemoration gold medals for those brave Volunteers". (Glasgow Herald, 17/03/1900).

 
 
Obverse with the arms of Partick and the legend: "BURGH OF PARTICK 1852".
Reverse: "[R.F. SMITH] / VOLUNTEER / TO / SOUTH AFRICA / 1900".
 
 
Smith example sold through Dix Noonan Webb, 23/09/2011, for £4,100.

Meiklejohn example held in the collection of the National Army Museum, London (NAM. 1997-11-68). This is the example illustrated in Hibbard and Hern.

 

 

Hibbard #C13
NAM. 1997-11-68
 
 
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Dundee Evening Telegraph, 5th February 1900
 

URGENT CALL TO PARTICK VOLUNTEERS.

Sixteen volunteers have just received a call to South Africa. The Provost has issued a notice of the call to arms, and invites subscriptions up to this evening to present each man with a medal as a keepsake. So urgent is the call that the Provost says the men cannot be allowed another day off duty.
 
 
Glasgow Herald, 21st February 1900
 

Recognition by Partick of the Engineer Volunteers.

Before the close of the farewell meeting on Monday night with the 1st Lanarkshire Royal Engineers, held at their headquarters in Jardine Street, Provost Wood and Commissioner Lang, of Partick, presented, on behalf of the Commissioners, to the four members of the section who are about to proceed to the front small tastefully designed gold medals for the watch-chain. The Volunteers who received the interesting memento were Major James LANG, commanding; Sappers J. LOGAN, K. MACMILLAN, and R. STEVEN. We understand that similar medals are being struck, and will be forwarded to the members of the other Volunteer regiments who belong to Partick.
 
 
Glasgow Herald, 22nd February 1900
 

More Glasgow Volunteers for the Front.

Yesterday forenoon the members of the Glasgow Volunteer Infantry Brigade Bearer Company who have volunteered for active service at the front paraded at the Recruiting Office in the Gallowgate for medical examination. The following members having satisfied all the requirements were duly enlisted as members of the Royal Army Medical Corps, and are to proceed to Aldershot on Friday night, leaving St Enoch Station at 9.30: –

Corporal C.R.H. ROBERTSON, Biramsmuir, Cambuslang.
Corporal W.M. BLACK, Chapel Park House, Cambuslang.
Corporal W. McKAY, 6 Cambridge Street.
Corporal C. GRAHAM, 50 Renfrew Lane.
Corporal J.R. TIERNEY, 19 Martyr Street, St Rollox.
Corporal W.T. SCOTT, 55 Clarendon Street, Partick.
Private J. HAMILTON, 79 Abbotsford Place.

Private T. FORSYTH, 43 Gibson Street.

The detachment above are likely to leave for the front on March 1 in the Armenian, from Southampton, as members of No. 20 Bearer Company.
 
 
Glasgow Herald, 17th March 1900
 

WAR ITEMS.

Partick Volunteers at the Front.

Speaking in Partick on Thursday evening at the annual reunion of F Company, 1st Lanark, Provost Wood, in complementing the company on having four members serving in South Africa, stated that there were in all 34 Volunteers from Partick at the front. The municipality, to mark their gratification with this patriotic response on the part of the Volunteers, had, with the assistance of public-spirited citizens, provided commemoration gold medals for those brave Volunteers. He hoped to see a large increase in the Volunteer force in Partick, and with a population of 50,000 they ought to be able to raise a battalion. F Company of the 1st Lanark was the original Volunteer force of the burgh, and as a mark of his appreciation of their patriotic action at this time he would have great pleasure in following the example of Sir Andrew McLean and other Provosts of Partick in presenting a prize to the company for competition during the coming year. Mr Parker Smith, M.P., whose Parliamentary duties detained him in London, wrote Major George Stout, the officer in command, assuring him of his continued interest in F Company, and, in sending his best wishes, paid a warm tribute to the forces who had so valiantly upheld in South Africa the glorious traditions of the navy and army. Great enthusiasm was displayed when the toast of General Roberts was honoured, and a successful gathering was brought to a close by the assembly joining in singing “God Save the Queen”.
 
 
 
 
 
PARTICK Motherwell Times 23 Feb 1900
 
Motherwell Times, 23rd February 1900 (R.E. Vols)
 
 
 
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