service dress jacket
Report a Mistake- Object Number 20020115-007
- Event 1939-1945 Second World War
- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer Gieves Ltd.
- Date Made 1945-1966
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada
- Category Personal artifacts
- Sub-category Clothing, outerwear
- Department Dress and Insignia
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1945/01/01
- Latest 1966/12/31
- Inscription Gieves Limited LONDON BY APPOINTMENT TO H.M THE QUEEN MAKERS OF LIVERY HATS; BY APPOINTMENT TO H.R.H. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH NAVAL TAILOR & OUTFITTERS 200/00652 C.A.LAW; JO.
- Materials Mammal wool, Rayon, Brass
- Rank Commander
- Service Component Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
- Measurements Length 80.3 cm, Width 49.5 cm
- Caption C. Anthony Law (1916 - 1996)
- Additional Information Commander Anthony Law, DSC, RCN was one of Canada's most notable naval official war artists of the Second World War. He was unique in that he served as a naval officer throughout the conflict and in the period after the war. He retired in 1966. During his long and distinguished career as a naval officer he also worked as a professional artist. As a young man in the early war years, he served on a number of motor torpedo boats in the English Channel, and was involved in the action against the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in 1942. In this period he still found time to paint, usually when ashore during refits. In 1943, for example, he received a temporary assignment that enabled him to record some of Canada's more notable vessels, including HMCS Haida, Chaudière, Huron, and Restigouche. The Canadian War Museum collection includes some exuberant sketches of Law's shipmates, the vessels on which he served, and the ports he visited during this period.