[stationery letterhead:
“BUCKINGHAM PALACE.”]

The General Officer Commanding,
1st Canadian Division.

On behalf of the people of this country, I extend the warmest welcome to the first contingent of the Canadian Forces to reach these shores.

The British Army will be proud to have as comrades-in-arms the successors of those who came from Canada in the Great War and fought with a heroism that has never been forgotten.

[signature of King George VI:] George R.I. 

17th December, 1939.

Cpl. D.G Duncan,
1st Corps Ammunition Park,
Canadian Active Service Force.

[enclosure:]

CANADIAN MILITARY HEADQUARTERS

RECORDS OFFICE,
GOVERNMENT BUILDING,
BROMYARD AVENUE
ACTON, LONDON W.3.

14th February, 1940.

The attached letter is forwarded to you for safe keeping, at the direction of the addressee.

A.M. Brown, Lt-Col.,
Officer i/c Records,
Canadian Military Headquarters.

Mrs. J.A. Duncan,
16, Currie Ave.
Toronto, Ontario,
CANADA

[Editor’s note: While there is a high degree of confidence that the C.M.H. enclosure note and the King’s letter were mailed together, at the time of donation the pages were sequentially together but no longer with their original envelope.]