service dress necktie
Report a Mistake- Object Number 20050136-005
- Event 1945-1989 Cold War
- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer --
- Date Made 1973
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada
- Category Personal artifacts
- Sub-category Clothing accessory
- Department Dress and Insignia
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1973/01/01
- Latest 1973/12/30
- Inscription (label/étiquette): ABRA, E, M. 035
- Materials Polyester, Metal
- Branch Naval Operations BranchWomen's Royal Canadian Naval Service
- Service Component Canadian Forces
- Unit HMCS Carleton
- Measurements Length 54.1 cm, Width 5.0 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.