service dress cap
Report a Mistake- Object Number 20050136-001
- Event 1945-1989 Cold War
- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer Principal Cap
- Date Made September 1969
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada
- Category Personal artifacts
- Sub-category Clothing, headwear
- Department Dress and Insignia
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1969/09/01
- Latest 1969/09/30
- Inscription (lable/étiquette): PRINCIPAL CAP CAP WREN WHITE SEPTEMBER 1969 8405-21-845-2346 SIZE 6 5/8; ABRA, E.M. 035
- Materials Plastic, Cotton, Mammal leather
- Branch Naval Operations BranchWomen's Royal Canadian Naval Service
- Service Component Canadian Forces
- Unit HMCS Carleton
- Measurements Height 7.5 cm, Outside Diameter 23.5 cm
- Caption Uniform, Chief Petty Officer Eleanor Abra
- Additional Information Eleanor Abra, a naval reservist, was issued this pre-unification style of naval uniform in 1973. Abra, who served in HMCS Carleton, the naval reserve unit in Ottawa, Ontario, received a dark blue uniform of a pattern introduced in 1957. The jacket itself dates to that year, while the skirt and other pieces were made at later dates. Although the Royal Canadian Navy became part of the Canadian Forces in 1968, with its distinctive uniforms being replaced by a green uniform common to all three services, the naval reserves were slower to make the change.