3-082-301 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Presentation of Long Service Medals to volunteers, London Scottish Drill Hall, Westminster, 1895. 'At last the veteran members of our citizen army have received a royal token of approval for their faithful services. On Feb. 14, at the headquarters of the London Scottish Volunteer Corps, James Street, Westminster, General Lord Methuen presented the long-service medals awarded to the Volunteers of the Home District. About nine thousand of the rank and file have up to the present been awarded the medal, which, as Lord Methuen said, "shows that the services you have rendered to your country have obtained the same esteem from the Queen as that already shown to the officers." It was a very picturesque spectacle which the Drill-hall displayed with its companies of smart Volunteers of the [Royal] Artillery headed by Colonel Pearson, R.A., the [Royal] Engineers commanded by Colonel Althorpe, R.E., the West London Brigade under Colonel Trotter, the East London Brigade under Colonel Lord Arthur Wellesley, the South London Brigade under Colonel Gascoigne, the Surrey Brigade commanded by Lord Belhaven, and the Home Counties Brigade under Lord Wantage'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.