Hobart Baptist Sunday School War-Year Certificate awarded to Harry Cumini
1915Hobart Baptist Sunday School War-Year Certificate awarded to Harry Cumini in 1915. The certificate has a decorative timber frame which is glazed.
Much of the certificate is pre-printed in blue ink, including details about the church, the reason for the certificate, the date and the names of the office bearers. The name of the recipient and the pronouns 'he' and his' have been writtne in black ink where there are appropriate gaps on the certificate.
The reverse of the frame is covered with dark brown paper which is in poor condition.
This certificate of one of several held in the collection where the recipient has foregone a monetary award or trophy and instead donated the equivalent value to a war fund, in this case the Red Cross.
Details
Details
From left to right and top to bottom of certificate:
"Hobart Baptist Sunday School
WAR-YEAR CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that Harry Cumini
recognising the needs of the nation in THE GREAT CRISIS
through which the Emprie is now passing, cheerfully donated
to the RED CROSS FUND the value of the prize to which
he was entitled, in order that the amount might be ex-
pended in ministering to the comforts of those Wounded
Soldiers who had heroically fallen in his defence.
OCTOBER 1915
J.W. BOREHAM, President
G.J. MACLEOD, Superintendent
E.F. HERITAGE, Secretary"
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- Red Cross Hospital Worker badge
- Australian Red Cross Society tennis medallion
- Metal and enamel fob presented to Red Cross Voluntary Donor, M.Reid
- Australian Red Cross Society Fireman badge
- Cloth patch worn by Red Cross Fireman
- International Red Cross Parcel, Guernsey Channel Islands metal token
- Red Cross Message Bureau Guernsey - message number one
- Red Cross Message Bureau Guernsey - message number two
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- Label from gift food parcel sent from Australia to England - number 2
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