service dress jacket
Report a Mistake- Object Number 19750344-024
- Event 1939-1945 Second World War
- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer Levy Brothers
- Date Made December 1944
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada
- Category Personal artifacts
- Sub-category Clothing, outerwear
- Department Dress and Insignia
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1944/12/01
- Latest 1944/12/31
- Inscription Levy Bros. TORONTO Com. Adelaide Sinclair, Dec. 1944
- Materials Mammal wool, Acetate
- Branch Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service
- Service Component Royal Canadian Navy
- Measurements Length 63.0 cm, Width 38.0 cm
- Related activity Superintendent
- Caption WRCNS Uniform, Captain Adelaide Sinclair
- Additional Information This uniform belonged to Adelaide Sinclair, Director of the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service (WRCNS) from 1943 to 1946. Sinclair was the first Canadian woman to wear the four stripes of a captain (jacket sleeve) in the Royal Canadian Navy. Appointed director of the WRCNS in September 1943, Sinclair held the position until the service's disbandment in 1946. The red and white ribbon beside Sinclair's jacket lapel (top right) is for the Order of the British Empire, awarded in January 1945 for her work in organizing and directing the WRCNS.