County: Renfrewshire
Issued on: Return
Dates of presentations: 20/05/1901, 19/05/1902
Number issued: 7
Silver medals, suitably inscribed, to:
20/05/1901 presentation
1st Volunteer Active Service Company, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders ["G" Company, 2nd V.B.A.& S.H.] –
8523 Private S.S. ANDERSON
7346 Private Bryan HODGSON
8525 Private Joseph KIDD (absent - joined Railway Sharpshooters)
7344 Private Frank McMILLAN
7352 Private James PALMER (absent - joined Railway Sharpshooters)
7342 Private William THOMSON
Presentation made by Provost Cumming, at the Town Hall, Renfrew.
19/05/1902 presentation
2nd Volunteer Active Service Company, 1st Bn. Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders ["G" Company, 2nd V.B.A.& S.H.] –
8550 Lance-Corporal W. GILLIES
Presentation made by Provost Cumming, at the Town Hall, Renfrew.
KNOWN EXAMPLES HIGHLIGHTED IN GREEN
Type 1 (1901).
Obverse with bust of Queen Victoria, and: "SOUTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN / 1900-1901".
Reverse with the civic arms of Renfrew, and: "PRESENTED BY THE CORPORATION OF THE ROYAL BURGH OF RENFREW / TO [PTE. JAMES PALMER], G. COY. 2ND V.B.A.& S.HS. / AS A RECOGNITION / OF HIS SERVICES AT THE FRONT".
Type 2 (1902).
Obverse with bust of Queen Victoria, and: "SOUTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN / 1901-02".
Reverse with the civic arms of Renfrew, and: "PRESENTED BY THE CORPORATION OF THE ROYAL BURGH OF RENFREW / TO LANCE-CORPORAL W. GILLES, G. COY. 2ND V.B.A.& S.HS. / AS A RECOGNITION / OF HIS SERVICES AT THE FRONT".
Palmer example illustrated in Hibbard.
Thomson example sold through Dix Noonan Webb, 10/10/1995, for £600 (with QSA).
Thomson example sold through City Coins, 19/10/2018 (with QSA). This is the example illustrated in Hern.
City Coins, Postal Medal Auction 69 (19/10/2018)
Hibbard #C14
City Coins, 19/10/2018 (Lot 257)
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Paisley Gazette, 25th May 1901
RETURN OF VOLUNTEERS FROM THE FRONT.
The men of G Company who have been serving in the Volunteer Active Service Company of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in South Africa arrived in Renfrew on Monday night by the ten o’clock train. A large crowd had assembled in Fulbar Street to welcome them home, but the utmost order prevailed. The Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council received them in the station, and a procession was then formed. Headed by the police under Captain Deans, there followed the Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council, a piper, and then the four heroes, followed by the members of G Company under the command of Major Woods and Lieutenant Brown. The procession marched up Fulbar Street to the Town Hall, where an interesting ceremony took place, the Provost presenting each of the returned men with a silver medal commemorative of the year’s service. Bailies Ferguson and Anderson also addressed the meeting. On the motion of the Rev. Mr Anderson, a vote of thanks was awarded Provost Cumming for his duties in the chair. The hall was crowded to suffocation, and many hundreds could not find accommodation inside. At the close of the proceedings, which lasted about an hour, the men were carried shoulder high through the streets to their respective homes.
Paisley Gazette, 24th May 1902
RETURNED VOLUNTEER HONOURED.
Lance-Corporal W. GILLIES, who recently returned from South Africa with the Second Service Company of the Volunteers, and who belongs to the Renfrew Company, was made the recipient of a handsome silver medal as a recognition of his services at the front. Provost Cumming, in asking Corporal GILLIES’ acceptance of the medal, extended to him a hearty welcome on his return home. He expressed the hope that he might be long spared to look back with pride on the time he had spent in South Africa fighting for his country. Corporal GILLIES returned thanks for the gift.
The medal, which is of a chaste design, is suitably inscribed. On the one side it bears the burgh coat of arms in the centre, with the following inscription: – “Presented by the Corporation of the Royal Burgh of Renfrew to Lance-Corporal W. Gillies, G Company, 2nd V.B.A. & S.H., as a recognition of his services at the Front”. On the reverse side is Queen Victoria’s head with “South African Campaign, 1901-02” inscribed round it.
Paisley Gazette, 25th May 1901
