State: Ontario, Canada
Issued on: Return
Date of presentation: 29/10/1900
Number issued: 1
Gold Maltese cross, to:
"C" Company, 2nd (Special Service) Bn. Royal Canadian Regiment –
7335 Private F.H. DUNHAM
Subscribed for by members of Centennial Epworth League, Dufferin Road, Toronto.
Obverse with badge and motto of the Epworth League: "EL / LOOK UP / LIFT UP".
Reverse: "PRESENTED / To / F.H. Dunham / ON HIS / Return From THE South African War / BY / CENTENNIAL EPWORTH LEAGUE / 29/10/00".
The Epworth League took its name from the birthplace of John Wesley in Lincolnshire, and was founded to "promote intelligent and vital piety among the young people of the Methodist Church". The Methodist Church building on Dufferin Grove, Toronto was built in 1891, the 100th anniversary of the death of John Wesley, and was named the Centennial Church.
Dunham example in the Constantine Collection.
Constantine Collection
