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- OBJECT TYPE
- Appointment/framed
- DATE
- 1931
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1995.1690.001
- MANUFACTURER
- National Defence
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- paper document & backing; glass; wood frame; steel loop
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
- 33.5 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 CA
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- City
- Ottawa
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- dated June 15, 1931 but appointment backdated to April 1, 1924
- 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; the back-date of commissioning coincides closely with the formation of the RCAF in 1924 - Function
-
to appoint Kenneth Guthrie an Officer's commission in the RCAF - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- lettering on document reads: "1/[singature - illegible]/George the Fifth by the Grace of God/of Great Britain, Ireland, and 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 Air Force of our Dominion/of Canada from the First day of April 1924. You are therefore carefully/and diligently to discharge your Duty as such in the Rank of Flying Officer 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 Canada Gazette, or in such other manner as may for/the time being be prescribed by Us in Council, and you are in such manner and on such occasions as may/be prescribed by Us 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./In witness Whereof Our Governor General of Our Dominion of Canada/hath hereunto set his hand and Seal at Our Gevernment House in the City of Ottawa/this Fifteenth day of June in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand/Nine Hundred and Thirty One and in the Twenty second/Year of Our Reign/By Command of His Escellency The Governor General//[singature - illegible]/Deputy Minister of National Defence./Flight Lieutenant Kenneth MacGregor Guthrie/Royal Canadian Air Force (Permanent)/5M-3-30 (3673)"; lettering ink stamped on back reads: "Davie Art Shop/861 Davie Street/VANCOUVER 1, B.C."
- Missing
- l1 loop & wire (hanging hardware)
- Finish
- black lettering on white certificate; black frame
- Decoration
- seal, possibly of Governor General of Canada, at upper left
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National Defence, Certificate, 1931, Artifact no. 1995.1690, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1995.1690.001/
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