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3 December 2020

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№ 686

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3 December 2020

Hammer Price:
£100

City of Cardiff Illuminated Certificate to the 4th Glamorgan Home Guard Battalion.
A fine illuminated certificate, 300mm x 250mm, with a border of leeks and daffodils, inscribed:
‘To the Officer Commanding and to the Officers, Warrant Officers, Non Commissioned Officers & Men, 4th Glamorgan, Home Guard Battalion.
Greetings.
Whereas we, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of the City of Cardiff in recognition that the Battalion was recruited from our Citizens for the defence of our beloved City appreciate that your role in time of war will be to defend our lives and our homes.
Now we do by these Presents adopt the 4th Glamorgan Home Guard Battalion for the furtherance of our good and cordial relationship and as an earnest of close co-operation upon all appropriate occasions.’
Dated 10 May 1954 and signed by the Lord Mayor (George Llewellyn Ferrier) and the Town Clerk, mounted in a glazed display frame,
very good condition £100-£140