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Description: | manufacturers label, printing, white label with blue lettering, S.W. Silver & Co
(Silve & Edgington Ltd)
LONDON
PORTSMOUTH
LIVERPOOL & HOVE
WRNS uniform worn by Dorothy Dixon from 1943 to 1946. The jacket and skirt was worn as service dress as a third officer in the Fleet Air Arm. The uniform was issued at Mill Hill. Tailors came to the base, and took measurements and orders. The quality of the fabric was not standard, but depended on what each WREN could afford. WREN Dixon spent 3 weeks of preliminary training at Mill Hill. Her duties included scrubbing and polishing floors. During her career with the WREN she trained as a radio mechanic and telephonist. She spent most of the war tracking all planes in the Navy by radar.
Aspect: sex, Description: f
Aspect: age, Description: adult
Aspect: function, Description: uniform
Material: textile, wool
Material: textile, wool, felt
Colour: black | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.costume&textiles.259975 | Go to resource |
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