State: New South Wales, Australia
Issued on: Return
Date of presentation: 10/11/1902
Number issued: 1
Gold medal, suitably inscribed, to:
3rd New South Wales Imperial Bushmen –
5117 Trooper Henry Hazel EADE
Presentation made by Miss I. Davison, at the residence of her father, Mr D. Davison.
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Bathurst Free Press, 12th November 1902
District Intelligence.
RAGLAN.
PRESENTATION To Mr H.H. EADE.
A very pleasing ceremony was enacted here on Monday morning, when Mr H.H. EADE, lately returned from South Africa, where he has served during the greater part of the war, was presented with a handsome gold medal, suitably inscribed. The presentation was made by Miss I. Davison, at the residence her father, Mr D. Davison. In the course of a short address prior to making the presentation, Miss Davison said, that seeing Mr EADE was the only one from Raglan who had volunteered for service during the late war, the residents naturally felt proud of him, and were rejoiced to know that he had passed through all the dangers and hardships of the campaign, and been restored to his parents and friends safe and sound, and they had no doubt that if in the future the Mother Country should stand in need of the assistance of her sons across the seas, that he would be among the first to volunteer his serviced in defence of that glorious old flag, the emblem of liberty and justice. I trust the day may never come when the meteor flag of England will occupy a secondary position among the great nations of the world. Miss Davison then presented Mr EADE with the medal, and trusted he might be long spared and eminently successful in whatever line of life he decided on entering upon, and that he would prize the medal, not for its Intrinsic value but as a memento of his campaigning career and a slight token of esteem and regard entertained for him by his friends.
