King George V Signed | 1922 Imperial Service Order Document

King George V signed 10x15” warrant dated 3^rd June 1922. In part stating that Thomas Parker Porter ‘We have thought fit to nominate and appoint you to be a companion of our Imperial Service Order’.Countersigned by Edward Shortt - the Home Secretary.

King George V was King of the United Kingdom, the British Dominions and Emperor of India. During the destruction of the First World War, his Royal House also became a casualty with the renaming in 1917 to the House of Windsor. The changing political tide saw him in 1924 appoint the first Labour government, and in 1931 the dominions of the Empire were reorganised as independent states within the Commonwealth of Nations.