Physical description

Certificate. Appointing an Officer of the Military Forces of the Commonwealth, HENRY THOMAS RIDGE. Black print on cream coloured paper. Includes an embossed Commonwealth of Australia seal.
Frame. Mid brown timber with dark green mount & glass front.

Inscriptions & markings

On front of certificate in black ink:
HENRY THOMAS RIDGE
ACTIVE CITIZEN
EIGHTH
OCTOBER
LIEUTENANT
SEVENTH
MAY
FORTY TWO

Along edge of certificate:
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59
Twelfth
May
Forty two