State: Victoria, Australia
Issued on: Return
Date of presentation: May 1902
Number issued: 1
Gold locket & chain, to:
5th Victorian (Mounted Rifles) Contingent –
1549 Trooper Joseph WALTON
Presentation made at a welcome social, at Yuengroon, St Arnaud.
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Melbourne Age, 29th May 1902
ST. ARNAUD. – Trooper J. WALTON, of Yeungroon, has been entertained at a welcome social, and presented with a gold chain and locket. Private W.A. KENNIES [sic], of Avon Plains, has been similarly honored. Sergeant-Major KNIGHTS, of the Fifth Contingent, who recently returned from South Africa, has been entertained at a welcome social by Gre Gre village residents, and also presented with a gold locket, suitably inscribed.
