work dress jacket
Report a Mistake- Object Number 20070070-001
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Event
1939-1945 Second World War
1939-1945 The Home Front - Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer --
- Date Made 1939-1945
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada
- Category Personal artifacts
- Sub-category Clothing, outerwear
- Department Dress and Insignia
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1939/01/01
- Latest 1945/12/31
- Inscription 666
- Materials Cotton
- Service Component German Merchant Marine
- Measurements Height 73.2 cm, Width 49.5 cm
- Related activity Prisoner of war
- Caption Prisoner of War Work Jacket
- Additional Information Crew from the captured German merchant ship Weser were issued conspicuous prisoner of war clothing after they were brought ashore at Esquimalt, British Columbia. This denim jacket, worn by Kurt Gunzel, has a large red "target" circle sewn into the back, which could not be removed without leaving an obvious hole. Sent to a camp near Fredericton, New Brunswick, Gunzel spent six years interned in Canada. His experience was positive enough that he decided to return to Canada in 1951, spending 37 years as a groundskeeper at the Guild Inn in Scarborough, Ontario.