State: New South Wales, Australia
Issued on: Return
Date of presentation: 01/06/1901
Number issued: 4
Gold Maltese crosses, to:
"C" Squadron, 1st New South Wales Mounted Rifles –
Lieutenant Stanley Ross ANTILL
425 Sergeant Arthur Johnston ANTILL
"B" Squadron, New South Wales Citizens' Bushmen –
321 Sergeant Harold SEALE [M.H. Seale]
"A" Company, New South Wales Imperial Bushmen –
276 Private Benjamin SCARD
Presentation made at a smoke concert.
Obverse with recipients monogram: "AJA".
Reverse: "PRESENTED / To / Sergt. A.J. Antill / ON HIS / RETURN FROM ACTIVE SERVICE / IN SOUTH AFRICA / WARREN / May 1901".
Note: the Sydney Morning Herald of 01/06/1901 states that only three medals were presented and makes no mention of Private Scard.
Sergeant Antill example sold through O'Mara's Auctions / grays.com (Australia), 22/10/2024, for $580 AUD.
O'Mara's Auctions / grays.com (Australia), 22/10/2024
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Sydney Morning Herald, 1st June 1901
WARREN, Friday.
A smoke concert was tendered Lieutenant ANTILL, Sergeant SEALE, Corporal ANTILL, and Corporal FREEMAN yesterday, the Mayor presiding. Three gold medals from the townspeople were presented.Sydney Daily Telegraph, 3rd June 1901
WARREN, Saturday.
A welcome in the form of a smoke concert was tendered to Lieut. S.R. ANTILL, Sergeants A.J. ANTILL and M.H. SEALE, and Private B. SCARD, members of the Australian forces recently returned from active service in South Africa. The toast of the returned soldiers was enthusiastically honoured, and each guest was presented with a gold medal, suitably inscribed. Lieutenant ANTILL, in responding, gave an interesting sketch of the work done by his regiment, Including a graphic account of the siege of Elands River.
