ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDANT ARCHIBALD BELTON CORNER, LONDON POSTAL REGION. Imperial Service Medal, George VI, first type (1938-48) "Indiae Imp" obverse, with its original top brooch suspender (officially renamed, impressed in plain block capitals: ARCHIBALD BELTON CORNER). Extremely Fine and virtually as struck.
Medal accompanied by extracts 1911 census, 1939 Register and London Gazette.
Archibald Belton Corner was born in Wandsworth, London, in 1888 and entered the London postal service as a trainee in 1903. He is recorded in the 1911 census as a 23 year old single Counter Clerk and Telegraphist as a visitor at 7 Victoria Buildings, North Street, Ventnor and in the 1939 Register as a married Post Office Overseer living in Surbiton, Surrey with his wife Ethel and son Frank.
Corner's Imperial Service Medal was announced in the London Gazette of 9/3/1948
"Corner, Archibald Belton, Assistant Superintendent, London Postal Region"
