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OBJECT TYPE
Appointment/temporary/framed
DATE
1918
ARTIFACT NUMBER
1995.1689.001
MANUFACTURER
Air Ministry
MODEL
Unknown
LOCATION
London, England

More Information


General Information

Serial #
N/A
Part Number
1
Total Parts
1
AKA
N/A
Patents
N/A
General Description
paper certificate & backing; glass; wood frame; steel hanging hardware

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length
42.0 cm
Width
32.3 cm
Height
N/A
Thickness
2.3 cm
Weight
N/A
Diameter
N/A
Volume
N/A

Lexicon

Group
Aviation
Category
Archives
Sub-Category
N/A

Manufacturer

AKA
Defence UK
Country
England
State/Province
Unknown
City
London

Context

Country
England
State/Province
Unknown
Period
WWI (1914-1918); this document dated Nov. 1, 1918, but appointment is retroactive to May 2, 1918
Canada
Kenneth MacGregor Guthrie joined the RFC during WWI, was commissioned in the RAF in 1918 and retired from the RCAF as an Air Vice Marshal in 1949
Function
to apponint Kenneth Guthrie a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force
Technical
Unknown
Area Notes
Unknown

Details

Markings
lettering on document reads: "13/TEMPORARY/[singature]George R.I./George by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of/Great Britain and Ireland, and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, defender/of the Faith, Emperor of India, &c./To Our trusty and well beloved Kenneth Macgregor Guthrie Greeting:/We, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Loyalty, courage and good Conduct, do by/these Presents Constitute and Appoint you to be an Officer in Our Royal Air Force from the/Second day of May 1918. You are therefore carefully and diligently to/discharge your Duty as such in the Rank of Second Lieutenant or in such higher Rank as/We may from time to time hereafter be pleased to promote or appoint you to, of which a notification/will be made in the London Gazette, and you are at all times to exercise and well discipline in/Arms both the inferior Officers and Men serving under you and use your best endeavours/to keep them in good Order and Discipline. And We do hereby Command them to Obey you/as their superior Officer, and you to observe and follow such Orders and Directions as from time/to time you shall receive from Us, or any your superior Officer, according to the Rules and/Discipline of War, in pursuance of the Trust hereby reposed in you./Given at Our Court, at Saint James's, the First/day of November 1918 in the Ninth Year of Our Reign./By His Majesty's Command./[singature - illegible]/[signature] W.A. Robinson"; raised lettering on Air Ministry stamp reads: "CONCIL AER BRITT MAG SIGIL OFFI"; lettering ink stamped on back reads: "Davie Art Shop/861 Davie Street/VANCOUVER 1, B.C."
Missing
N/A
Finish
black lettering on white document; red ink stamp at upper right; black frame
Decoration
raised Air Ministry stamp at lower left

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