Letter from the Lieutenant Colonel Leetham, Secretary of the Royal United Service Institution to Ballard regarding his father's medals, and on whether any other Subaltern or Captain had been made a Companion of the Bath at that rank. Also a letter from Colonel Douglas Dawson, Registrar and Secretary of the Lord Chamberlain's Office in response to Ballard's enquiry about his father's honours and what precedence his mother may have had among the wives of other Companions of the Order of the Bath. Also contains a typed account of John Archibald Ballard's work as Mint Master at Bombay.