Country: Scotland
Issued on: Return
Dates of presentations: 29/10/1901, aft. 29/10/1901
Number issued: c. 162
Gold, silver or bronze commemorative badges, to:
29/10/1901 presentation (Glasgow)
POTENTIAL RECIPIENTS (EXTRACTED FROM THE LIST OF SCOTTISH HOSPITAL STAFF WHO RECEIVED THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY OF GLASGOW ON 21/02/1901)
Scottish National Red Cross Hospital –
Civil Surgeon John AITKEN
Civil Surgeon Henry Edward CLARK
Civil Surgeon John Marshall COWAN
Civil Surgeon Alexander GARROW
Civil Surgeon George HODGE
Civil Surgeon James LUKE
Civil Surgeon George McINTYRE
Civil Surgeon John WOTHERSPOON
Quartermaster William LEE
Secretary George John FORD
Acting Sergeant-Major James KENNY
Staff Sergeant William G. RODGER (medical student)
Staff Sergeant David SHANNON (medical student)
Sergeant Patrick Thomas CAIRNS (medical student)
Sergeant Andrew Alexander Andrew Alexander McWHAN (medical student; silver)
Sergeant Thomas Heyliger RICHMOND (medical student)
Corporal Thomas ANDERSON (medical student)
Corporal George Herbert CLARK (medical student)
Corporal George Munro McLEOD (medical student)
Corporal David Scott Erskine McNAB (medical student)
1st Class Orderley George Thomson BOGLE (medical student)
1st Class Orderley Henry DOIG (medical student)
1st Class Orderley William Hendry DUNCAN (medical student)
1st Class Orderley Eric Dalrymple GAIRDNER (medical student)
1st Class Orderley James Charles GALLOWAY (medical student)
1st Class Orderley Alexander GLEN (medical student)
1st Class Orderley Saul Hyman HARRIS (medical student)
1st Class Orderley Alexander Dingwall KENNEDY (medical student)
1st Class Orderley David Duncan Fraser McINTYRE (medical student)
1st Class Orderly James MILLER (medical student; silver)
1st Class Orderley David MOODIE (medical student)
1st Class Orderley Arthur Alexander MURISON (medical student)
1st Class Orderley Alexander Harper NAPIER (medical student)
1st Class Orderley John Dunn NISBET (medical student)
1st Class Orderley James Robert ROBERTSON (medical student)
1st Class Orderley Peter Hamilton ROBERTSON (medical student)
1st Class Orderly Norman Cumming ROGERS [Rodgers] (medical student)
1st Class Orderley Campbell ROSS (medical student)
1st Class Orderley Charles W. SHARP (medical student)
1st Class Orderley Norman Burgess STEWART (medical student)
1st Class Orderley James Nathaniel TODD (medical student)
1st Class Orderley Hugh Fleming WARWICK (medical student)
1st Class Orderley Norman WEST-WATSON (medical student)
1st Class Orderley David Ashley WILSON (medical student)
Sergeant Wiliam COPELAND
Sergeant George DOUGLAS
Sergeant Daniel FISHER
Sergeant William McINTOSH [MacIntosh]
Sergeant James McMILLAN
Sergeant William Ferguson William Ferguson OATTES [Oatt] (bronze star)
Sergeant Joseph SEIVWRIGHT
Sergeant Alexander YOUNG
Corporal Duncan Andrew McPHAIL
Corporal Samuel Douglas MILLER
Corporal John WILSON
Orderly William ADAM
Orderly Herbert ALLAN (Robert Allan)
Orderly Edward ANGUS (Aggus)
Orderly Alfred BLACK
Orderly Charles William BROWN
Orderly William BROWN
Orderly William Broadfoot CLARK
Orderly George DOWIE
Orderly George GERRY
Orderly John GERRY
Orderly William KEARNEY
Orderly Duncan LIVINGSTON
Orderly Charles Hay McDONALD
Orderly Donald Fraser McDONALD
Orderly James McDONALD
Orderly Patrick McFARLANE (McFarland)
Orderly Alexander Ronald McGREGOR
Orderly Abraham McKEW
Orderly John McLACHLAN
Orderly William McLAREN
Orderly Adam McLEOD
Orderly Peter Joseph MUNDY
Orderly John NEESON
Orderly William PATTERSON
Orderly George PICKERING
Orderly Allan PIPE
Orderly John Charles REID
Orderly Alexander SCOTT
Orderly Richard STEWART
Orderly Robert Lockhart SWANN
Orderly John THOMSON
Orderly Edward Brown TOPPING
Orderly John WILLIAMSON
Orderly John WILSON
Nursing Sister Margaret Butler ALEXANDER (gold)
and a further six unnamed nurses (amongst those listed below)
Presentation made by the Duchess of Montrose, in the Queen's Rooms, Glasgow.
aft. 29/10/1901 presentation (forwarded to recipients?)
Scottish National Red Cross Hospital –
c. 66 volunteers who did not receive badges at the 20/10/1901 Glasgow ceremony
POTENTIAL RECIPIENTS (EXTRACTED FROM QSA MEDAL ROLL)
Colonel Henry CAYLEY
Civil Surgeon Allan S. BOYD
Civil Surgeon N. DUNBAR-WALKER
Civil Surgeon George GRAVES
Civil Surgeon James D. HOLMES
Civil Surgeon J. Neill KEITH
Civil Surgeon Patrick KINMONT
Civil Surgeon Arthur ROBIN
Civil Surgeon Alexander STEVEN
Civil Surgeon Robert STIRLING
Civil Surgeon Neish Park WATT
Corporal William WILSON (medical student)
1st Class Orderley James R.S. ANDERSON (medical student)
1st Class Orderly Charles BISHOP (medical student)
1st Class Orderly Kenelm EDWARDS (medical student)
1st Class Orderly Cecil H. HOUGHTON (medical student)
1st Class Orderley Archibald LYON (medical student)
1st Class Orderly Alexander A. MACFARLANE (medical student)
1st Class Orderley Alexander McLEAN (medical student)
1st Class Orderly David Robertson MITCHELL (medical student)
1st Class Orderly Charles C. PEPPER (medical student)
1st Class Orderley Laurence D. SHAW (medical student)
1st Class Orderly Alexander B. SPENCE (medical student)
Sergeant John W. COALPITTS [Colpitts]
Sergeant William F. MEASON
Sergeant Hugh WILSON
Orderly Thomas BRENNAN
Orderly James COMBE
Orderly Charles FRASER
Orderly George GEDDES
Orderly John GRAHAM
Orderly R. KEITH
Orderly Frank LITSON
Orderly Donald MILLER
Orderly Johnston C. REID
Orderly William STENHOUSE
Orderly Campbell URQUHART
Orderly William WALLACE
Nursing Sister Mary Jane BELL [Mamie Bell]
Nursing Sister Alexandra MacIver BOWER
Nursing Sister E.R. BROWN
Nursing Sister Matilda Margaret Mary BROWN
Nursing Sister Jane BULMAN
Nursing Sister Edith May CHAPMAN
Nursing Sister Martha Isabella CLEGHORN [Mathie Cleghorn]
Nursing Sister Elizabeth Boyd COLE
Nursing Sister Lizzie DYKE-MINTON
Nursing Sister Annie FISHER
Nursing Sister Mary Ann FORBES
Nursing Sister Grace Margaret GIRDLER
Nursing Sister Mary Isabella GORDON
Nursing Sister Florence GRAYSTON
Nursing Sister Elizabeth HENDERSON
Nursing Sister Ann Robertson MACINTOSH [Mackintosh]
Nursing Sister Annie MACLEOD
Nursing Sister Gates Burdie MARRACK
Nursing Sister Elizabeth MARSHALL
Nursing Sister Agnes Isobel McCULLOCH
Nursing Sister Isa MURDOCH
Nursing Sister E.S. PEARSE
Nursing Sister Helen RICHARDSON
Nursing Sister Elizabeth Cochrane SHANNON
Nursing Sister Edith SMITH
Nursing Sister Jemima SPENCE
Nursing Sister Jesse Russell STENHOUSE
Nursing Sister Anna Linn STORIE
Nursing Sister Katherine [Catherine] Geddes STRONACH
Nursing Sister Mary Ritchie THOMSON
Nursing Sister Annie THORNTON
Nursing Sister Geraldine TROUT
Nursing Sister Elizabeth WILKIN
Nursing Sister Emily Jane WOOD
KNOWN EXAMPLES HIGHLIGHTED IN GREEN
Obverse: "SCOTTISH NATIONAL RED CROSS HOSPITAL / SOUTH / AFRICA / 1900".
Reverse: "ST ANDREW'S AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION".
Badge with edge-engraved naming, thus: "ANDREW A. McWHAN."
Star with engraved naming to obverse, thus: "SERGT. WM. F OATTES, SCO. HOS."
Two types exist: one an oval badge; the other with the badge mounted on a 5-pointed star. The oval badge has been seen in both gold and silver.
The few known examples and their respective recipients might suggest that nurses (and civil surgeons?) received gold badges, medical sudents silver badges, and the remainder bronze stars.
The reported number of male recipients at the Glasgow ceremony (96, less "half a dozen" nurses) tallies very closely with the number of men who received the Freedom of the City of Glasgow on 21/02/1901 (89). This suggests that the 29/10/1901 presentation was to Glasgow members of the Scottish Hospital only. Presumably, the remaining 66 volunteers received their badges at a later date, perhaps by post.
Cased microscope by J. Lizars, Manufacturing Optician, presented to Orderly David Robertson Mitchell, on his departure for the front. Case with engraved silver plaque: "PRESENTED / TO / D.R. Mitchell / BY A FEW FRIENDS ON THE OCCASION / OF HIS / LEAVING CLYDEBANK / FOR MEDICAL SERVICE / IN THE / SOUTH AFRICAN WAR. / 16TH MAY 1900".
Sergeant Oattes example sold through St James's Auctions, 18/06/2008, for £400 (bronze version)
Nursing Sister Margaret Alexander example sold through Dix Noonan Webb, 25/03/2013, for £2,900 (gold version).
James Miller example sold through Kunker Auctions, October 2019, for €340 (silver version).
James Miller example sold through Noonans, 26/07/2023, for £550 (ex Henk Loots Collection).
Hibbard #J7
St James's Auctions, 18/06/2008 (lot 932)
Information and images provided by Paul Dunn
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The Scotsman, 30th October 1901, p.8
In the Queen’s Rooms, Glasgow, yesterday, the presentation took place of South African medals and commemorative badges to the members of the staff of the Scottish National Red Cross Hospital. General Sir Archibald Hunter, K.C.B., commanding the forces in Scotland, presented the medals, while her Grace the Duchess of Montrose, handed over the commemorative badges, which were the gift of the Scottish Red Cross Society.
The Scotsman, 30th October 1901, p.9
SCOTTISH NATIONAL RED CROSS STAFF.
PRESENTATION OF WAR MEDALS.
The presentation of South African medals and commemorative badges to the members of the staff of the Scottish National Red Cross Hospital took place yesterday in the Queen’s Rooms, Glasgow. General Sir Archibald Hunter, K.C.B., Commanding the Forces in Scotland, presented the medals, while her Grace, the Duchess of Montrose handed over the commemorative badges, which were the gift of the Scottish Red Cross Society. The recipients included the surgeons, the nurses, and the orderlies, and they numbered 96 in all. Many of the orderlies were medical students. In the case of the half-dozen nurses, commemorative badges only were presented, the “sisters” having already received their medals from the King. The ceremony attracted a crowded audience, while many hundreds more assembled outside the hall to obtain a glimpse of the distinguished visitors who had come to honour the civilian heroes of the war.
The 89 members of the Scottish National Red Cross Hospital who received the Freedom of the City of Glasgow on 21/02/1901
(Nurses are not included in this list, as at the turn of the century only men could be granted the Freedom)
William ADAM
John AITKEN
Herbert ALLAN
Thomas ANDERSON
Edward ANGUS
Alfred BLACK
George Thomson BOGLE
Charles William BROWN
William BROWN
Patrick Thomas CAIRNS
George Herbert CLARK
Henry Edward CLARK
William Broadfoot CLARK
Wiliam COPELAND
John Marshall COWAN
Henry DOIG
George DOUGLAS
George DOWIE
William Hendry DUNCAN
Daniel FISHER
George John FORD
Eric Dalrymple GAIRDNER
James Charles GALLOWAY
Alexander GARROW
George GERRY
John GERRY
Alexander GLEN
Saul Hyman HARRIS
George HODGE
William KEARNEY
Alexander Dingwall KENNEDY
James KENNY
William LEE
Duncan LIVINGSTON
James LUKE
Charles Hay McDONALD
Donald Fraser McDONALD
James McDONALD
Patrick McFARLANE
Alexander Ronald McGREGOR
William McINTOSH
David Duncan Fraser McINTYRE
George McINTYRE
Abraham McKEW
John McLACHLAN
William McLAREN
Adam McLEOD
George Munro McLEOD
James McMILLAN
David Scott Erskine McNAB
Duncan Andrew McPHAIL
Andrew Alexander McWHAN
James MILLER
Samuel Douglas MILLER
David MOODIE
Peter Joseph MUNDY
Arthur Alexander MURISON
Alexander Harper NAPIER
John NEESON
John Dunn NISBET
William Ferguson OATT [Oattes]
William PATTERSON
George PICKERING
Allan PIPE
John Charles REID
Thomas Heyliger RICHMOND
James Robert ROBERTSON
Peter Hamilton ROBERTSON
William G. RODGER
Norman Cumming ROGERS
Campbell ROSS
Alexander SCOTT
Joseph SEIVWRIGHT
David SHANNON
Charles W. SHARP
Norman Burgess STEWART
Richard STEWART
Robert Lockhart SWANN
John THOMSON
James Nathaniel TODD
Edward Brown TOPPING
Hugh Fleming WARWICK
Norman West WATSON
John WILLIAMSON
David Ashley WILSON
John WILSON
John WILSON
John WOTHERSPOON
Alexander YOUNG
