County: County Durham
Issued on: Return
Date of presentation: 08/06/1901
Number issued: 3
Gold alberts & medals, suitably inscribed, to:
Volunteer Active Service Company, Durham Light Infantry ["G" & "H" Companies, 2nd V.B.D.L.I.] –
8096 Private [Lance-Corporal] Gerald HOLDER
8100 Private Thomas SMITH
8210 Private Samson HARPER (invalided; returned to S. Africa as 9383 Pte. S. Harper, 3rd V.A.S.C.)
Presentation made by Captain Robert Hedley, at a smoking concert in the Town Hall, Spennymoor.
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Durham County Advertiser, 14th June 1901
PRESENTATION AT SPENNYMOOR.
The members of the G and H Companies 2nd V.B.D.L.I. and friends held a smoking concert at the Town Hall on Saturday night, for the purpose of making a presentation to three Volunteers who have returned from South Africa, viz.: – Lance-Corporal G. HOLDER, Private T. SMITH, and Private S. HARPER. The presentation took the form of a gold albert and medal to each, suitably inscribed. Captain R. Hedley presided over an enthusiastic meeting, and made the presentation with an appropriate speech, which was responded to by each of the recipients. Songs, recitations, etc. were given by Lance-Corporal HOLDER, Sergeant Plant, Sergeant Bromley, Private Hepple, Private Dunlavey, and Childs (1st V.B.D.L.I., Middlesbrough), Messrs W. Dobson, Harvey, Carr, Atkinson, R. Dobbin, Sergeant James Marshall, and the Whitworth Prize Band. A vote of thanks to the Chairman brought a most successful evening to a close.
Stockton Herald, 15th June 1901
PATRIOTIC PRESENTATION AT SPENNYMOOR.
The reception on Friday week accorded to Lance-Corporal G. HOLDER, Private T. SMITH and Private S. HARPER on their return from South Africa was in every way loyal and appreciative, and as a further memento of the appreciation of the members of the G and H Companies 2nd V.B.D.L.I. the three men were on Saturday night recipients of handsome presents. The ceremony took place in the Town Hall, Spennymoor, which was packed with Volunteers and friends.
Captain Robert Hedley, in making the presentations, consisting of a massive gold albert and gold medal suitably inscribed, complimented the men on the praiseworthy manner in which they had represented the G and H Companies 2nd V.B.D.L.I. during their sixteen months’ sojourn in South Africa.
The recipients suitably responded.
