Temperance organisations

External links

Medals

• Details of the book, (webpage now archived) A Guide to Military Temperance Medals of the British Army and Royal Navy by David A. Harris. 2nd Edition with a link to the Contents and Foreword. The book includes chapters on the Army Temperance Association India (ATAI), the Royal Army Temperance Association: India/Home (RATA) and the Indian Army Temperance Association
• Army Temperance Association: India, six-month medal (Crookshank Cross), 1889 medal-medaille.com. Another view jkmilitaria.com
• Army Temperance Association: India, six month Medal 1889 (x2) in copper and silvered copper liveauctioneers.com
• Army Temperance Association: India, one-year silver medal, 1897 onwards issue c 1914 medal-medaille.com
• Army Temperance Association: India, Five Year Medal, silver c 1914 medal-medaille.com Heavy silver Maltese cross the face with an oval central medallion with St. George slaying the dragon.
• Silver medal of the Army Temperance Association, India The medal is in the shape of a Maltese Cross, with an elephant in the centre. It was awarded for accomplishing 8 years temperance . National Museums Scotland
• Three photographs from Soldiers of the Queen
  • Photograph of a Private wearing Temperance medals by L.C. Mullick – Photographer Quetta c 1902. The medals link him with both the Army Temperance Association and the Soldier's Total Abstinence Association.
  • Private of the 1st Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment a member of the International Order of Good Templars India c 1897
  • A Private of the King's (Liverpool) Regiment, a member of the International Order of Good Templars Ramji & Co. – Photographer Dalhousie, Punjab, India c 1905
• Falling off the wagon The Temperance movement and medals. fusiliermuseumlondon.org

Other

• The International Order of Good Templars ( IOGT) (Wikipedia) originated as one of a number of fraternal organizations for temperance or total abstinence founded in the 19th century and with a structure modeled on Freemasonry, using similar ritual and regalia.
  • Indian Templar Handbook Compiled by the Literature Committee of the International Order of Good Templars, Grand Lodge of India. Published 1907. Includes Chapter III "Good Templary in India", page 40 aasrschenectady.org. Membership included both military personnel and others.
    • Image of have a silk cloth (slightly shorter than A4 size) relating to a Bro. Evans and given to him 1st April 1914 at Calcutta. He was a regular member of Pride of Lhassa, Lodge No M-7, Grand Lodge of India. Rootsweb India Message Board
• Article "The Cautionary Tale of Pte Patrick O’Hare", of the 1st Leinsters. Details the temperance tract published 1897 regarding the murders in 1894 at Ahmedabad committed while under the influence of alcohol, and subsequent execution of Private O Hara. pages 4-6 The 40/10 The Journal of the Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) Regimental Association December 2009 html version original pdf
• This India List post states "The Soldiers' Total Abstinence Association was formed at Agra in 1858 by a Baptist missionary, the Revd. John Gregson, to which regimental branches were affiliated".
• This India List post briefly mentions the Madras Total Abstinence League (established 1882).