Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (47668 C.Q.M. Sjt: H. D. Burnet. Postal Sec: R.E.) pitting, nearly very fine £70-£90

This lot is to be sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward De Santis.

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M.S.M. London Gazette 3 June 1918.

Harry Duncan Burnet was born in Seacombe, Cheshire on 25 November 1880 and was onetime a member of the Denbighshire Hussars. He subsequently joined the Royal Engineers in November 1914 and was drafted to the R.E. Postal Service, in which capacity he was embarked for France at the year’s end. He later served in Italy - where he was awarded his M.S.M. ‘for valuable services rendered’ - and was discharged as a Company Quarter-Master Sergeant in April 1919. He died in Bebington, Cheshire in February 1958.