County: Dorset
Issued on: Departure
Date of presentation: 00/02/1900
Number issued: 1
Gold pendant & albert, suitably inscribed, to:
26th (Dorsetshire) Company, 7th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry –
5281 Sergeant Charles Henry AXE
Subscribed for by officers and non-commissioned officers of No. 7 & No. 8 Companies, Dorset Volunteer Artillery.
Sergeant Axe was posted to the I.Y. on 08/01/1900.
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Western Gazette, 16th February 1900
WEYMOUTH.
PRESENTATIONS TO IMPERIAL YEOMANRY MEN. –
A presentation has been made by the officers and non-commissioned officers of No. 7 and 8 Companies of the Dorset Volunteer Artillery to Sergeant AXE, who has been transferred to the Imperial Yeomanry. The presentation took the form of a gold albert with gold pendant attached, suitably engraved. A handsome marble clock has also been presented by the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men to Bombardier FORSEY, who has also been transferred to the same Imperial body.
Southern Times, 17th February 1900
PRESENTATIONS. – Recently a presentation was made by the officers and non-commissioned officers of No. 7 and 8 Co.’s, D.V.A., to Sergeant AXE, who has been transferred to the Imperial Yeomanry about to proceed to the front. The presentation took the form of a gold albert with gold pendant attached, suitably engraved. A handsome marble clock has also been presented by the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men to Bombardier FORSEY, who has also likewise been transferred to the Yeomanry.
