Canada, Commonwealth. A Wartime Black Watch of Canada Battledress by Hyde Park Clothes Limited, 1943 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac tarnishing and cracking of enamels

tarnishing and cracking of enamels evident

An Independence Medal (numbered 38023)

the coat-of-arms suspension in silvered bronze with red

are analysed in the text as a guide to dating

-LANDESVEREIN VOM ROTEN KREUZ” (“BAVARIAN STATE ASSOCIATION OF THE RED CROSS”)

Canada, Commonwealth. A Wartime Black Watch of Canada Battledress by Hyde Park Clothes Limited, 1943 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac tarnishing and cracking of enamelsBattledress Blouse: A lightly worn and saughtafter example in wool with a green tinge to the darker khaki colour, giving it that distinctive Canadian appearance, adorned with British made, paper backed shoulder flashes for THE BLACK WATCH OF CANADA R. H. R., accompanied by blue paper backed rectangular patches representative of the 2nd Canadian Division sewn in place on the upper sleeves on both sides. Below the division insignia, rank chevrons are