| Description | Includes correspondence, certificates of training, service and medals, and photographs, relating to Alexander Macalister Machin, relating to his time as a Warrant Officer (Company Sergeant Major) of the 2nd Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment during the First World War and then in India, as well as later as a local ARP organiser and instructor suding the Second World War and then in post war Civil Defence. Accompanied by battalion orders for a presentation of medals to commemorate the Coronation of King Edward VIII (14 July 1937), and booklet issued to Alexander Machin on attending a Review of Ex-Service Men and Women by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (5 July 1953). |