Ten Years Ago Today, item 40

• March 16, 2017 14:45:37 Lucas Diaz

  George R.I.

  
  

  
  

  George, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of

  Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender

  of the Faith, Emperor of India, &c.
  

  Our trusty and well beloved Frederick Charles Hoy 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 Special Reserve of Officers from
  

  the Twenty-Eighth day of August 1919. You are therefore carefully and diligently to

  discharge your Duty as such in the Rank of Second Lieutenant 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 London Gazette and you are at all times to exercise and well discipline
  

  in Arms 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.
  

        Given at Our Court at Saint James's the ...
  

       day of September 1919 in the Eighth Year of Our Reign
  

                                          By His Majesty's Command.
  

                                                            ...
  

  
  

  Frederick Charles Hoy
  

  Second Lieutenant
  

  Special Reserve of Officers

  
  

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