https://cbaionline.org/corpus/files/original/a0e1d7e186f0809815ee4ad2d5789465.pdf f1d5560078bb3541f86564bf36228144 Miscellaneous This is used for instruments that don't fit any other categories. Transcript A transcript of the document. 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 Ornamentation Describe any ornamentation. 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. Special Features This is a place to enter any distinguishing features. 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. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Miscellaneous - Air Secretary's Warrant Appointing a Warrant Officer [1945-10-22] Subject The topic of the resource Military Description An account of the resource Warrant of Viscount Stansgate appointing John Ormerod as a Warrant Officer in the Royal Air Force. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Viscount Stansgate (Secretary of State for Air) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived "<a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/17634">Warrant promoting John Omerod to Warrant Officer</a>," CC BY-NC 4.0 via International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive at the University of Lincoln. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1945-10-22 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Jason Loch Relation A related resource <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/7-8/51/section/1">Air Force (Constitution) Act 1917</a> Air Secretary Military Royal Air Force Statutory Power