County: Cumberland
Issued on: Return
Date of presentation: 00/12/1901
Number issued: 1
Gold medal with applied bullet, suitably inscribed, to:
1st Volunteer Active Service Company, Border Regiment –
7197 Private Adam IRVING [Adam Irving Loughland / Louthland]
Presented by his comrades.
Irving was wounded in the nose at Wepener. Having been "cured" in South Africa, he returned home, suffering occasional pain from the wound. Only later did he discover that the bullet was still embedded in his nose. After being extracted by a local medical practitioner, it was mounted on a gold medal by his comrades.
Note: newspaper articles give the recipient's name as "Private Adam Irving Loughland [or Louthland]". This appears to be a typo.
Shields Daily Gazette, 06/12/1901
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Penrith Observer, 3rd December 1901
PAINFUL EXPERIENCE OF A PENRITH VOLUNTEER.
Private Adam IRVING Loughland, who was one of the Penrith Volunteers who returned from South Africa at the beginning of the year, has just had a painful reminder of his experiences at the front. He was wounded in action receiving a bullet wound in the nose. After being in hospital for a time the wound healed up. However, since his return he has been troubled with severe pains in his face. Last week he suffered so much that he consulted a doctor at Windermere, where he is at present employed. After a severe examination the doctor extracted a bullet, which Loughland has thus carried in his flesh for over twelve months. Adam’s fellow-workmen intend to get the bullet set in gold, and present it to him as a memento.
Sunderland Daily Echo, 6th December 1901
REMARKABLE GIFT FOR A BORDER VOLUNTEER.
The comrades of Adam IRVING Louthland, a Penrith man, who has lately been employed in the Windermere district, have made him a unique present, which will serve to remind him of the part he took as a member of the first active service company of the Border Regiment in South Africa.
The only engagement in which the Border Volunteers took part was at the relief of Wepener, and there Louthland was wounded in the nose. He went into hospital, and was discharged subsequently as cured. Since his return home last February he has occasionally suffered from the effects of the wound, but it was not until a few days ago that the cause of the pain was definitely ascertained. Louthland then went to a local medical practitioner, and the bullet was extracted from his nose. His comrades have since had the bullet mounted on a gold medal, on which there is a suitable inscription, and have presented the medal to him.
