service dress skirt
Report a Mistake- Object Number 19920141-005
- Event 1939-1945 Second World War
- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer The T. Eaton Co. Limited
- Date Made 1943/11/24
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada
- Category Personal artifacts
- Sub-category Clothing, outerwear
- Department Dress and Insignia
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1943/11/24
- Latest 1943/11/24
- Inscription PINE ROOM MISS MCCALLUM 24 11 43 1876 EATON'S, COLLEGE STREET
- Materials Mammal wool, Rayon
- Branch Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service
- Service Component Royal Canadian Navy
- Measurements Length 41.3 cm, Width 75.2 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.