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            <text>92/48/2
&lt;div style="text-align:right;"&gt;New Scotland Yard&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:right;"&gt;London. S. W. 1.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:right;"&gt;23rd February 1948&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;Sir,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With reference to previous correspondence which you have had with Superintendent Fallon of the Thames Division regarding the personal pennant of H. M.’s Secretary of State for the Home Department, I have to inform you that the Admiralty have now intimated that they have no objection to offer to the use of the pennant by a vessel in waters within their jurisdiction. &lt;br /&gt;In the circumstances, therefore, I am to request that you will be so good as to have the pennant enrolled among your records. A sketch of the pennant is enclosed. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:right;"&gt;I am, Sir, &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:right;"&gt;Your obedient Servant,&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:right;"&gt;J. Nott-Bower&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:right;"&gt;Deputy Commissioner&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;M. R. Trappes-Lomax, Esq.&lt;br /&gt;Rouge Dragon Pursuivant,&lt;br /&gt;College of Arms,&lt;br /&gt;Queen Victoria Street,&lt;br /&gt;E. C. 4.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[DEPICTION OF A WHITE PENNANT WITH A RED BORDER WITH THE ROYAL CROWN WITHIN A BATH STAR TOWARDS THE CENTRE]&lt;/div&gt;</text>
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            <text>John Nott-Bower (Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police)</text>
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            <text>Michael Trappes-Lomax (Rouge Dragon Pursuivant)</text>
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              <text>Letter - Asking the College of Arms to Enroll the Home Secretary's Pennant [1948-02-23]</text>
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              <text>Flags and Emblems</text>
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              <text>Letter from John Nott-Bower to Michael Trappes-Lomax asking the College of Arms to enroll the personal pennant of the Secretary of State for the Home Department.</text>
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              <text>Miscellaneous Enrolments 1/191</text>
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              <text>Mark Scott</text>
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