Medal, New Zealand
Description
New Zealand Medal award to George Frederick Standish for his participation in the No. 1 Company Taranaki Rifle Volunteers. Obverse of medal has a laurel wreath with the words "NEW ZEALAND / VERTUTIS HONOR". The reverse has a relief of Queen Victoria. The medal is on a red and blue striped ribbon.
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George
Frederick
Standish
received
the
New
Zealand
Medal
for
his
time
as
a
private
in
No.
1
Company
(1860-63),
Taranaki
Bushrangers
(1864)
and
Taranaki
Calvary
Volunteers
(1894-66).
G.F.
Standish
was
born
into
a
prominent
early
New
Plymouth
family.
He
was
one
of
three
sons
of
Thomas
Standish
who
was
probably
the
first
practising
lawyer
in
New
Plymouth.
He
was
the
younger
brother
of
Arthur
Standish
who,
also
a
lawyer,
was
the
first
Mayor
of
New
Plymouth.
George farmed outside of Inglewood after the Taranaki Wars. He married Mary Reilly who was much younger than him. They had a son, Fred, who was brought up by the Brown family after George moved to the Porirua Lunatic Asylum, near Wellington. It had been recently set up for long-term patients and was set in a rural area with farmland to work. George spent the rest of his life there.
Fred received George's New Zealand Medal and he passed it down through his descendants.
George farmed outside of Inglewood after the Taranaki Wars. He married Mary Reilly who was much younger than him. They had a son, Fred, who was brought up by the Brown family after George moved to the Porirua Lunatic Asylum, near Wellington. It had been recently set up for long-term patients and was set in a rural area with farmland to work. George spent the rest of his life there.
Fred received George's New Zealand Medal and he passed it down through his descendants.
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PA2016.018
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