As a 6 year old schoolboy at the end of WW2, the King & Queen came along the Old Kent Road on a visit and I along with my school friends waved our union flages like mad. To this day I swear Queen Elizabeth smiled directly at me. Later, I was presented with a certificate from King George VI commemorating Victory and listing every major battle/event which took place during the hostilities.
The document displays the Royal Coat of Arms and states:-
8th June 1946
Today, as we celebrate victory, I send this personal message to you and all other boys and girls at school. For you have shared in the hardships and dangers of a total war and you have shared no less in the triumph of the Allied Nations.
I know you will always feel proud to belong to a country which was capable of such supreme effort; proud, too, of parents and elder brothers and sisters who by their courage, endurance and enterprise brought victory. May these qualities be yours as you grow up and join in the common effort to establish among nations of the world unity and peace.
George R.I.
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