Code: 58467
A very nice WW2 Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Reefer Jacket to a Sub-Lieutenant Pilot.
This Jacket is part of a grouping all to the same man which I have reluctantly decided to break up and sell individually as it is unclear what the name of the original Pilot was.
Made of very dark blue wool, this Jacket is in a good wartime configuration. This shown by there being standard Royal Navy officer’s buttons throughout but to the lower sleeve a single row of zig-zag bullion rank tape for a Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve Sub-Lieutenant.
Post- war the RNVR adopted standard straight Royal Navy rank tape with the buttons reverting to the letters “R and V each side of the Anchor.
In WW2 all wartime enlisted personnel to the Royal Navy were categorised as RNVR to differentiate them from the pre War professional Royal Navy.
To the inside of the rank curl on the sleeve is a bullion letter “A” for the Fleet Air Arm branch, with above this on the left arm a very nice set of bullion King’s crown pilots wings.
Inside the Jacket is fully lined in black cotton sateen with a tailors label for Moss Bros to the inside pocket. There is the Pilot’s name on this label but it is difficult to make out what is.
It is in very good service condition overall with no moth.
A lovely wartime FAA Pilot’s Jacket.
