Hugh Auld
Corporal
(most likely on HMCS Victoria) source: Naval Graves Project.
Ship's Carpenter
died: 26-1-1884
Father - Archibald Auld
source:Victorian Navy Monument, Williamstown Cemetery Erected by the Officers, Petty Officers and Men of the Permanent Naval Force of Victoria In Memory of their Deceased Comrades Large Monument surmounted by Large Anchor
courtesy of Helen Harris, OAM
& Victorian Navy Database courtesy of Geoffrey Bensley
Recipient of the Victoria Volunteer Long and Efficient Service Medal
Hugh's medal was at some stage of its history was, like at least one other known specimen, converted to a brooch/badge so that it could be worn.
Photos by the medal's owner and proud descendant, Kelly Bagdon.
Details on the Victoria Volunteer Long and Efficient Service madal.
"Dad told a story which could be dated to about that time (late 1890s). Nin and her sister, Adeline (who later married George Gillon) attended an afternoon tea party on board the ‘Cerberus’, the flagship of the Victorian Navy. It could have been at Williamstown, where the ‘Cerberus’ was usually berthed. Janet and I have speculated that the girls’ invitations may have been arranged through their great-aunt, Mary Auld (nee Walsh), who had married Hugh Auld, a ships’ carpenter in the permanent Victorian Navy. Although Hugh had died in 1884, Mary, at 57, was still living in Williamstown at the turn of the century and quite likely still in touch with the Navy ‘Types’."
Daniel James Walsh and Annie Evelyn Walsh (nee Burke) By Brian Walsh (2006) | 