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CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY - CIVIL DEFENCE COUNCIL WESTERN AUSTRALIA

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Civil Defence Council

1943

Overview

Rectangle card, folded in half. Front cover has black text, inside a border made up of Xs. Inside border is also an image of a crown with [ARP] on it. Inside the card is a form made up of printed text with spaces where names and other information has been hand written in ink. Text on front Cover [CIVIL DEFENCE COUNCIL / WESTERN AUSTRALIA / CERTIFICATE / OF / AUTHORITY] top lines inside [Form No. 9 WESTERN AUSTRALIA. J 1729/42* / CIVIL DEFENCE (EMERGENCY POWRS) ACT, 1940. / Civil Defence Council. / AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS.].

Historical information

This piece of paper was issued by the Armadale Police station during World War II for Carmel Florens who lived in Gosnells at the time of issue. This certificate allowed her to assist with the Air Raid Precautions. This involved making sure residents and businesses were complying with blackout instructions which were put in place due to a fear of potential air raids by Japanese forces. The card was issued by Roy Fletcher who was the local police officer in Armadale

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-33-COA2009.2

Item type

Documents

Themes

People
Social History
War and Conflict

Material

Card

Ink

Width

102 mm

Height or length

123 mm

Keywords

World War Two

FLETCHER Sheila Katherine

Armadale

BERT Street Gosnells

Armadale Police Station

FLORENS Carmel Theresa May

Place made

Western Australia
Australia

Year

1943

Statement of significance

HIGH Historic: example of authority given in local defence during WWII. All of Australia felt the threat of invasion during the war. Was signed by local policeman Roy Fletcher Provenance: Belonged to Roy Fetcher the local Armadale policeman and issued to Carmel Theresa May Florens to assist with air raid precaution. This object is part of collection with good provenance and interpretive potential that tells the story of the City of Armadale's connection to armed conflicts around the world from the late 1800s to today.

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Comparative significance criteria

Interpretive capacity

Rare or representative

Well provenanced

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