Description
Object description
Soldiers' service and pay book (AB 64) covering his service as a Territorial in the Royal Garrison Artillery, ultimately with 444 Siege Battery RGA in the rank of temporary Battery Quartermaster Sergeant, from March 1913 - June 1919, his birth certificate (showing that he was just fifteen when he attested), a postcard photograph sent to his grandmother (24 October 1914) during his service between 1914 and 1916, initially as a Gunner, with the Torry Point Battery in his home town of Aberdeen, a pass issued to him at a reinforcement camp in France (31 December 1918), a signal concerning the signing of the peace treaty at Versailles (28 June 1919), various official forms relating to his demobilisation including a letter of commendation from Major R J Blackadder, the officer commanding 151 Siege Battery RGA with which Aberdein served on the Western Front from 1916 - 1918, a printed letter from the GOC Southern Command and the receipt for the return of his Army great coat (September - December 1919), two ts letters and an ms memorandum relating to his application for the Territorial Force Efficiency Medal (March - May 1920) and an undated press cutting about the first reunion of No 1 Company North Scottish RGA Old Comrades Association; together with a small album of newspaper cuttings relating to Aberdein's service as a senior officer in the Manchester City Police (1934 - 1947) and as Chief Constable of Salford from July 1947 until his sudden death in October 1948, a sheet of Grand Hotel Manchester notepaper bearing the signatures of members of the cast of the comedy radio programme ITMA (1944), four photographs of Aberdein in army and police uniform and other photographs, mainly of 'Bunty', a howitzer in (?) 151 Siege Battery RGA.
Content description
Soldiers' service and pay book (AB 64) covering his service as a Territorial in the Royal Garrison Artillery, ultimately with 444 Siege Battery RGA in the rank of temporary Battery Quartermaster Sergeant, from March 1913 - June 1919, his birth certificate (showing that he was just fifteen when he attested), a postcard photograph sent to his grandmother (24 October 1914) during his service between 1914 and 1916, initially as a Gunner, with the Torry Point Battery in his home town of Aberdeen, a pass issued to him at a reinforcement camp in France (31 December 1918), a signal concerning the signing of the peace treaty at Versailles (28 June 1919), various official forms relating to his demobilisation including a letter of commendation from Major R J Blackadder, the officer commanding 151 Siege Battery RGA with which Aberdein served on the Western Front from 1916 - 1918, a printed letter from the GOC Southern Command and the receipt for the return of his Army great coat (September - December 1919), two ts letters and an ms memorandum relating to his application for the Territorial Force Efficiency Medal (March - May 1920) and an undated press cutting about the first reunion of No 1 Company North Scottish RGA Old Comrades Association; together with a small album of newspaper cuttings relating to Aberdein's service as a senior officer in the Manchester City Police (1934 - 1947) and as Chief Constable of Salford from July 1947 until his sudden death in October 1948, a sheet of Grand Hotel Manchester notepaper bearing the signatures of members of the cast of the comedy radio programme ITMA (1944), four photographs of Aberdein in army and police uniform and other photographs, mainly of 'Bunty', a howitzer in (?) 151 Siege Battery RGA.
History note
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