WW2 BRITISH ARMY GROUP OF 5 MEDALS TO BURTON INFANTRY WITH BOX OF ISSUE CORPS OF COMMISSIONAIRES MEDAL

Description

Offered is a WW2 British Army group of 5 medals: 1939-45 Star, Burma Star, Defence & War Medal – these unnamed as issued, with Corps of Commissionaires silver and enamel long service medal, named to F.W. BURTON, being silver hallmarked. In original issued box with name and address in Birmingham. Box is from Infantry records.

The Corps of Commissionaires refers to a global movement in Commonwealth countries of societies created to provide meaningful employment for veterans of the armed services. The Commissionaires movement traces its roots to 1859, when Captain Sir Edward Walter KCB organized seven disabled veterans of the Crimean War and Indian Mutiny to act as nightwatchmen.