Miscellaneous Documents, booklets and ephemera, mainly of military interest. Comprising a S...

Miscellaneous Documents, booklets and ephemera, mainly of military interest. Comprising a Soldier’s ‘Brown Book’ Service and Pay Book, Regular Army Soldier’s ‘Red Book’ Certificate of Service, Record of Service Sheet, and Parchment Royal Warrant, on appointment as Warrant Officer, relating to Warrant Officer Class II, Company Sergeant Major A. M. Williams, Royal Engineers and Royal Signals, together with a group photograph supposedly including the recipient; a Parchment Certificate of Service (Army Form D.426), Parchment Certificate of Discharge (Army Form B.2077), and Certificate of Employment During the War (Army Form Z. 18), relating to Regimental Sergeant Major G. R. Marsden, 4th Dragoon Guards; a small bundle of letters home, mainly from India and Burma in the early 1890s, relating to Lance Sergeant R. Scott, Cheshire Regiment, including a parchment Camp Cookery Certificate issued by the Deputy Assistant Quarter Master General, Aldershot Camp, this all giving an interesting snapshot of military life on campaign in India and Burma; a R.A.F. Form 2520B Airwoman, Royal Air Force Service and Release Book, and letter from the Royal College of Music, London, relating to Flight Sergeant H. M. Klein, B.E.M., Women’s Auxiliary Air Force; a Home Guard Service Certificate, 1952-56, named to G. E. A. Bourne; two National Registration Identity cards, one named to W. J. J. Haynes, of Brierly Hill, with a Gloucestershire Regimental Association Life Membership Card; an Army Booklet ‘Health Memoranda for British Soldiers in the Tropics’ 1941; and other ephemera; together with a British cast copy of the Sinking of the S.S. Lusitania Medal by K. Goetz, 55mm, unboxed, generally good condition £60-£80 --- Alexander Mitchell Williams was born in 1904, and enlisted at Cork into the Royal Engineers on 2 February 1920. He transferred into the Royal Signals on 6 November 1920, and remained in the Royal Signals for his military career. He served at Home, in Egypt, India and served with the B.E.F. in France from September 1939 to June 1940, the remainder of his Second World War Service being ‘at Home’. His Certificate of Service confirms that he had served 25 years and 253 days with the Colours and seven years in the Reserve, having a combined service of 33 years. He received the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in 1938, the 1939-45 Star and the Defence and War Medals. He was discharged from the Army Reserve in 1953. George Richard Marsden was born in Ashford, Kent. He enlisted into the Dragoons of the Line as Private No. 4802, 4th Dragoon Guards, at London on 13 May 1898. He transferred to the Army Reserve at Gosport on 20 April 1905, and was recalled for service in the Great War being promoted Regimental Sergeant Major on 13 October 1917. Robert Scott received the India General Service Medal 1854, with clasp Chin-Lushai 1889-90, for service in India as Colour Sergeant, 1st Battalion, Cheshire Regiment. Miss Hilda Minnie Klein was born in Bow, London, in October 1896. A talented pianist, she entered the Royal College of Music on 23 September 1915 and studied there for 19 terms. She won numerous prizes, became an Associated Board examiner and held a teaching post until the late 1960s. Miss Klein enlisted in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force at Harrogate on 30 September 1940. Promoted to Corporal on 24 January 1941, she was trained as a Photographic Interpreter (P.I.) and transferred to R.A.F. Medmenham in Buckinghamshire on 17 April 1942; the station was the R.A.F.’s Central Interpretation Unit, responsible for analysing air photographs and producing reports of enemy positions. The unit issued target maps to 617 Squadron prior to the Dambusters Raid, and kept close tabs upon the movements of the Tirpitz in Norway. For her services she was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 1 January 1945) and additionally awarded the British Empire Medal, Military Division (London Gazette 1 January 1946). She was discharged on 14 September 1945 and died at Hove, Sussex, on 7 June 1981.