Transcription reads:

TESTIMONIAL
Company Serjeant Major E.C. Dent. The Parachute Regiment. The above named Warrant Officer joined The Parachute Regiment when it was first formed and served in the campaigns of North Africa, Sicily and Italy. He has been my C.S.M. for
four months, during which time I have found him to be all that could be desired as a personal assistant in the administration of my Company and the application of discipline. He is unswerving in his loyalty and devotion to duty and I feel a personal loss at his leaving my command.

S.E.A.C. (South East Asian Command) Major.
28 December 1945. Comd. 5 Parachute Bde HQ, Defence Coy.

Researched and written by Robert Hilton