service dress cap
Report a Mistake- Object Number 19920141-001
- Event 1939-1945 Second World War
- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer Webflex Reg'd
- Date Made --
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada
- Category Personal artifacts
- Sub-category Clothing, headwear
- Department Dress and Insignia
- Museum CWM
- Inscription Webflex REG'D
- Materials Polyester
- Branch Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service
- Rank Lieutenant-Commander
- Service Component Royal Canadian Navy
- Measurements Height 11.9 cm, Length 28.2 cm, Width 26.5 cm
- Caption Uniform, Lieutenant-Commander Eleanor McCallum
- Additional Information This uniform belonged to Eleanor McCallum, one of the longest-serving members of the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service (WRCNS). McCallum entered the WRCNS at the time it was formed, and was subsequently appointed an officer. Along with her colleagues, she was among the first women to serve as a commissioned officer in a navy within the British Commonwealth. While the rank insignia on McCallum's jacket sleeve differs in detail from other branches of the Royal Canadian Navy, the names of the various officers' ranks were the same, unlike those in Britain's Women's Royal Naval Service.