Australian Army issue service dress jacket : Sergeant M Grace, Australian Womens Army Service

Australian Women’s Army Service khaki woollen service dress jacket buttoning down the front with four oxidised brass ‘Australian Military Forces’ buttons. The jacket is fully lined and has four pockets, two inset below the waist with flaps over the openings, and two pleated breast pockets with buttoned flaps. The jacket has brass oxidised rising sun collar badges and ‘AWAS’ shoulder titles. At the top of each sleeve is the colour patch of Headquarters, New South Wales Lines of Communications Area, and a set of machine woven sergeant’s chevrons have been stitched to the right sleeve. A self fabric belt passes around the waist and fastens with a buckle at the front. A white maker’s label stitched on the inside of the jacket below the collar reads ‘N425 1943. SIZE 5 Made in Australia’. Written in ink on the lining is ‘NF392287. M.GRACE’.

Worn by NF392287 Sergeant May Grace (later Goudie) during her service in the Australian Women’s Army Service. Grace was born on 9 April 1917 in North Sydney, New South Wales and enlisted on 13 April 1942 at Chatswood. She completed her initial training at Killara in Sydney and was then stationed at Victoria Barracks and Bathurst, before being discharged on 10 October 1946.

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