State: Tasmania
Issued on: Departure
Date of presentation: 24/04/1900
Number issued: ?
"Commemorative medals", to:
1st Australian Contingent –
all Tasmanian volunteers
A gift from Messrs F. & W. Stewart, jewellers (Launceston).
"You will notice these medals are struck as a special memento of the occasion".
"Sir John Dodds yesterday sent the medals out to Captain Lewis at the camp. The gifts will be very much appreciated by the men as mementoes of their departure from Tasmania".
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Hobart Mercury, 25th April 1900
APPROPRIATE GIFTS.
Messrs F. & W. Stewart, jewellers, of Launceston, have forwarded to His Honour the Chief Justice, a packet of commemoration medals, and requested him to present them to the "First Australian Imperial Contingent leaving Tasmania for the Transvaal". Messrs Stewart say: – "You will notice that these medals are struck as a special memento of the occasion". There is one for each officer and man. Sir John Dodds yesterday sent the medals out to Captain Lewis at the camp. The gifts will be very much appreciated by the men as mementoes of their departure from Tasmania.
