In this podcast from The National Archives Podcast Series, Mark Dunton looks at the system for purchasing and selling commissions as it worked from 1800 – 1871. He will cover first appointments, promotions, exchanges, retirement, the payment process and the activities of the ‘Army Agents’. He will use document examples to illustrate the talk.
dmf32835 said,
April 17, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Thanks for this great bit of history on the Commission Brokers and Army Agents.