by apowell » Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:49 am
Hi,
What was the name and details of this fellow with the service number CM because from the little information I can find it looks like he served prior to the First World War maybe in the Victorian times 1870-1888 ???
British Army
In the British Army, the Commissariat was a uniformed civilian service until 1869, when its officers transferred to the new Control Department as commissioned Army officers. The supply organization of the British Army went through a number of incarnations, including the Commissariat and Transport Department, Staff and Corps, before becoming the Army Service Corps in 1888.
A commissariat is the department of an army charged with the provision of supplies, both food and forage, for the troops. The supply of military stores such as ammunition is not included in the duties of a commissariat. In almost every army the duties of transport and supply are performed by the same corps of departmental troops. An officer of a commissariat is called a Commissary.
Regards
Adrian