service dress cap
Report a Mistake- Object Number 19750344-025
- Event 1939-1945 Second World War
- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer Lilly Whites Ltd
- Date Made --
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada
- Category Personal artifacts
- Sub-category Clothing, headwear
- Department Dress and Insignia
- Museum CWM
- Inscription 7; Lilly Whites LTD PICCADILLY CIRCUS AND KNIGHTSBRIDGE
- Materials Polyester
- Branch Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service
- Service Component Royal Canadian Navy
- Measurements Height 9.2 cm, Length 26.2 cm, Width 22.4 cm
- 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.