A Royal Canadian Electrical And Mechanical Engineers Battledress Uniform 1943 Archive obverse illustrating the crowned cyphers

obverse illustrating the crowned cyphers of Tsars Nicholas I

1293 Sergeant Alfred Richards

Braunschweigisches / Kriegsverdienstkreuz / I

Spinks auction 22

In July or August 1944

A Royal Canadian Electrical And Mechanical Engineers Battledress Uniform 1943 Archive obverse illustrating the crowned cyphersCanada; Includes battledress blouse and pants. The battledress blouse is wool with a green tinge to the darker khaki colour, giving it that distinctive Canadian look versus the British version, of which the Canadian one is patterned after. The blouse is adorned with "R. C. E. M. E. CANADA" shoulder flashes, incorporating yellow embroidered lettering on a blue wool base, above 1st Canadian Army formation patches on both shoulders, the patches in red