Miscellaneous - Air Secretary's Warrant Appointing a Warrant Officer [1945-10-22]

Miscellaneous - Air Secretary's Warrant Appointing a Warrant Officer [1945-10-22]

Military

Warrant of Viscount Stansgate appointing John Ormerod as a Warrant Officer in the Royal Air Force.

Viscount Stansgate (Secretary of State for Air)

"Warrant promoting John Omerod to Warrant Officer," CC BY-NC 4.0 via International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive at the University of Lincoln.

1945-10-22

Jason Loch

WARRANT

The Right Honourable the SECRETARY OF STATE FOR AIR

To    John Ormerod DFM

By virtue of the Authority to me, by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty in this behalf given, I do hereby Constitute and Appoint you to be a Warrant Officer in His Majesty’s Royal Air Force from the Twenty second day of September 1945, and to continue in the said Office during the pleasure of the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for Air. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge your Duty as such by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging, as required by the Established Regulations of the Service, and you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions as you shall receive from your Commanding, or any other, your superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War.

GIVEN under my Hand and Seal of the Air Council this Twenty second day of October 1945

(Sgd.) Stansgate

Printed in an italic type.

Recipient's name is in Gothic type.

Recipient's name, "Royal Air Force," and dates are printed in red ink.

Signed (stamped?) by Viscount Stansgate (Secretary of State for Air).

This is an example of a Warrant that is not issued by the Sovereign, though it's still issued under royal authority.