County: Surrey
Issued on: Return
Date of presentation: 10/07/1901
Number issued: 19
Gold medals, to:
Volunteer Active Service Company, Queen’s West Surrey Regiment –
7324 Sergeant G. HOLT
7415 Private Charles ODD
Volunteer Active Service Company, East Surrey Regiment –
6199 Lance-Corporal [Sergeant] Joseph Arthur PARROTT
6202 Private Joseph W. FIDLER
6266 Private Lawrence Edgar JAMES
City Imperial Volunteers –
409 Private [Bugler] S. CHART
51st (Paget’s) Company, 19th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry –
13040 Trooper Douglas William JACKSON
56th (Buckinghamshire) Company, 15th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry –
10249 Sergeant-Major [Bugler] William Henry LANGRIDGE (returned S. Africa to serve with 2nd I.L.H.)
59th (Oxfordshire) Company, 15th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry –
8061 Trooper Arthur Alfred CATLIFF
71st (Sharpshooters) Company, 18th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry –
32766 Trooper Edwin Philip FROST [H. Frost]
72nd (Roughriders) Company, 20th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry –
14545 Trooper Alfred Ashford COLLETT
14635 Trooper George James HAWKINS
14547 Trooper John Kenneth SHAW
Imperial Yeomanry (unknown company) –
???? Trooper C. HART
Unknown Regiments –
Sergeant-Instructor JONES
Corporal LAMBERT
Private A.E. WARREN
Private H. BROWN
Private E. EDWARDS (possibly 6194 Private Ernest Albert Edwards, V.A.S.C., E. Surrey Regt.)
Presentation made in the Public Hall, Sutton.
Obverse: "SOUTH AFRICA 1900".
Reverse: "SUTTON SURREY / 1901 / [S. Chart]".
Note: the obverse of this medal is the same as that used for a series of commercial medals, featuring various British generals (Hern Nos 124 & 125; see below).
Constantine Collection
____________________________________________
Sussex Agricultural Express, 13th July 1901
SUTTON.
HEROES FROM THE FRONT.
Sutton gave a formal welcome home to its citizens who have been fighting in South Africa, on Wednesday. The welcome was not confined merely to those members of the local Volunteer Corps who offered for active service, but included all – C.I.V.’s, Imperial Yeomanry, Paget’s Horse, etc., who have voluntarily served their King and country in the war. The main street was gaily decorated, and the proceedings included a march through the town of the whole of the Sutton and Carshalton detachment of the 2nd Surrey V.B. and the returned Volunteers, a special thanksgiving service at the Parish Church, and a dinner at the Public Hall. During the latter, the active service men, about 20 in number, were presented with a gold medal each as a town’s memento of the occasion.
Surrey Mirror, 19th July 1901
SUTTON.
WELCOME HOME TO VOLUNTEERS.
The welcome to those members of the Yeomanry and Volunteers who have returned to Sutton was of a most enthusiastic character, and will long live in the memories of the townspeople as well as the heroes of the occasion. A very strong and representative committee left no stone unturned to make the proceedings a success, and everyone seemed to enter into the spirit of the thing with the greatest heartiness. The first item on the evening’s programme was the procession through the gaily decorated streets of the town. Starting from the station, the band of the Middlesex Regt. led the way, followed by the boys from the front – Sergt.-Instructor JONES, Sergt. HOLT, Sergt. PARROTT, Corpl. LAMBERT, Buglers LANGRIDGE and CHART, Troopers D. JACKSON, H. FROST, CATLIFF, HAWKINS, SHAW, COLLETT, C. HART, and Ptes. A.E. WARREN, H. BROWN, E. EDWARDS, L.E. JAMES, FIDLER, and ODD. The men were inspected at the station by Major-Gen. Turner, Inspector-General of the Auxiliary Forces, and followed by the members of the Sutton detachment of the 2nd E. Surrey Regt., and the Fire Brigades of Sutton, Epsom, and Carshalton, marched round the town to the Parish Church, where an appropriate service was conducted by the Rev. H.W. Turner, the rector. At the close of the service the procession was re-formed, and marched to the Public Hall, where the men were entertained to dinner. Mr Ralph Foster, J.P., presided, and was supported by Mr W. Keswick, M.P., Major Coates, C.C., Col. E. Horsman Bailey (commanding the 2nd V.B. East Surrey Regt.), Capt. C.P. Lovelock, Capt. Craske, and other of the chief residents of the district. Each of the returned men was presented with a gold medal suitably inscribed, and speeches, interspersed with excellent music, filled a most enjoyable evening.
Commercial medals by James Fenton, Birmingham, incorporating the same dseign as that used for the obverse of the Sutton tribute.
