ARMY MERITORIOUS SERVICE MEDAL SERGEANT W PALMER ASC SERVED ABYSSINIA PRE WW1
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Offered is a Meritorious Service Medal (E.VII.), impressed named 2/CL. S.SJT. W. PALMER. A.S.C. Comes with copy service records and newspaper extract.
Staff Sargent William Palmer was born in 1838 at Southwark, London. A blacksmith by trade, he enlisted into The Military Train 23/2/1858 with the service numbers 2050 & 796. (The Land Transport Corps was created as an integral part of the regular army, it was renamed as The Military Train in 1856 and in 1888 as the Army Service Corps).
He steadily worked his way through the ranks to 2nd Class Staff Sargent, retiring to pension 29/10/1878. He served for nearly 21 years which included 3 years in Canada and 5 months in Abyssinia.
It is highly probable that he is also entitled to the Abyssinian Campaign Medal.
He was awarded his Meritorious Service Medal in 1909, some 30 years after discharging! In relation to the medal, the award was limited to 40 who could wear it at any given time. The number was increased to 75 in 1928.
McInnes Volume One, page 373: "Palmer, W Staff Sgt. Annuity £10, 2 April, 1909.
