Sporting & General Medals, Badges & Awards - Churches

Lot 1389    SESSION 5 (9.30AM TUESDAY 12TH SEPTEMBER)    Sporting & General Medals, Badges & Awards - Churches &

Estimate $500
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CONDUCTOR'S BATON, two part, in ebony with silver fittings, total length 450mm, inscribed on central silver panel 'Presented to/Frank C.Yeoman/by the/Taneatua Presbyterian Church/Choir Nov.1913'. Very fine, in original fitted case stamped on the inside 'The Handy Pocket Baton'.

The following Courtesy of National Library of New Zealand - Papers Past, from the Bay of Plenty Beacon, 18 September 1940:

"OBITUARY, MR FRANK CYRIL YEOMAN
The death occurred on Sunday of Frank Cyril Yeoman, prominent farmer in the Opouriao district and well known throughout the Bay of Plenty. Born at Devonport, Auckland, in 1874, the late Mr Yeoman was one of the first ten scholars to be granted free places for secondary education and he attended the Auckland Grammar School until he went to Opotiki, in 1890, to learn farming. Four years later he purchased his own property at Waiotahi. In 1898 he married Miss Mary Blomfield, of Auckland, and in 1901, a few years after the Opotiki Estate had been cut up, he bought the present property. Yeoman was for many years a member of the Whakatane County Council and Bay of Plenty Hospital Board. Among his other connections, he was a director of the Opouriao Dairy Company from its inception and was a former president of the Whakatane and Rangitaiki A. and P. Association. He was associated with St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church Taneatua, being one of the original elders and acting as choirmaster for many years. For years he conducted the Sunday School at Opouriao. He is survived by his widow and a family of eight, Major Gilbert Yeoman, N.Z.M.R., at present in camp at Ngaruawahia, resides at Taneatua, Lieutenant Alfred Yeoman is with the 3rd Echelon, Lieutenant Allan Yeoman is in Britain with the 2nd Echelon and Mr Selwyn Yeoman resides in Whakatane; Mrs A. K. Prince, of Taneatua; Mrs A. E. Hill, of Murupara; Mrs S. Clinton-Williams, Mission Bay, Auckland, and Miss Elsie Yeoman, of Taneatua. There are 19 grand-children.