Dawson Shield

The photograph was hung in the Fremantle clubhouse at Swanbourne. The West Australian of Saturday 10 June 1905, page 11 reported that: "A letter has been received by Mr. F. B. Carter, the secretary of the National Rifle Association of Western Australia, from Mr. Peter Dawson, of Glasgow, stating that the Dawson Shield, presented to the National Rifle Association of Western Australia, would be despatched from England on May 16 by the steamer Den of Crombie. The shield, which is valued at £100, bears the following inscription:- "Presented by Peter Dawson, distiller, Dufftown and Glasgow, to the volunteers of Western Australia defenders of hearth and home and of the Empire of Greater Britain, 1905."