A National Registration Identity Card, issued during the Second World War to Geoffrey Styles,1 then living at 40 Medora Road, Romford.  It reads as follows:

1.  This Identity Card must be carefully preserved.  You may need it under conditions of national emergency for important purposes.  You must not lose it or allow it to be stolen.  If, nevertheless, it is stolen or completely lost, you must report the fact in person at any local National Registration Office.

2.  You may have to show your Identity Card to persons who are authorised by law to ask you to produce it.

3.  You must not allow your Identity Card to pass into the hands of unauthorised persons or strangers.  Every grown up person should be responsible for the keeping of his or her Identity Card.  The Identity Card of a child should be kept by the parent or guardian or person in charge of the child for the time being.

4.  Anyone finding this Card must hand it in to a Police Station or National Registration Office.

¹ Reproduced with his kind permission.

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