Letter to the Red Cross by HRH Prince Henry

Letter to Mrs Miller from HRH Prince Henry thanking her for collecting for the 'Red Cross Penny-a-week Fund on headed notepaper from Government House, Canberra, Australia, with metal pin badge showing the emblems of the Red Cross and the Order of St John, June 1945

During the Second World War, the then Duke of Gloucester, Prince Henry gave his backing to a Red Cross and St John's Appeal to raise money for wounded service people and prisoners of war.

By 1946, £54 million pounds was raised - all from donations. Many received badges like this one to say thank you for their contributions.