Midnight blue jacket : Private E C Moseley, Voluntary Aid Detachments

Midnight blue wool pinhead coating jacket with self fabric belt attached to the back of the jacket that fastens with an oxidised brass buckle. The jacket is shaped by darts at the front and back and has an inverted pleat 'action-back' at the centre back. There is a small watch pocket with an embroidered red cross on it over the left beast and two large patch pockets with rectangular flaps below the front waist. Two white metal 'Voluntary Aid Detchment-Australia' buttons fasten the front of the jacket and there are smaller buttons fastening the lower patch pockets, cuffs and shoulder straps. A further plain black flat plastic button fastens the front of the jacket beneath the line of the belt. The shoulder straps have holes to take silver 'VAD' titles, but these are missing. Each shoulder has a felt colour patch for 2/6 Australian General Hospital applied with fine grey buttonhole stitch. There are two blue woven service chevrons, on a khaki ground, on the lower right sleeve. The inside of the jacket is lined with midnight blue ribbed cotton sateen. A white cotton tape inside the back neck is marked in black indelible pencil 'NX76473 E.C.Moseley'. A small inset pocket inside the left front at waist level bears a black and white woven cotton manufacturer's tag for Farmer's, Sydney, and bears typed lettering 'FAR. F/C MISS.E.MOSELEY.15865. 17/10/41.'

Worn by NX76473 Private Elaine Constance Moseley. Born in Wellington, NSW, in 1915, she enlisted at Cowra, NSW, in 1941, for service with the Voluntary Aid Detachments (VAD). She subsequently served with 2/6 Australian General Hospital in Palestine until 1943. She was discharged on 12 April 1944.

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