NAM.1998-02-3-1

Mess jacket, Lieutenant Colonel. From mess dress uniform of Col Andrew Jeffrey Pinion, Royal Regiment of Artillery 1966-1987. Mock double-breasted, blue wool cloth, parachute proficiency badge. Body. On each front edge three mock buttonholes. On each side front a dart from lower edge to breast. Underarm and side back seams. Lower edge centre back forms a point. Blue and scarlet wool cloth and corded silk breast badge. Upper collar and 0.75 in wide border on outer edge of lower collar in blue wool cloth, the remainder in scarlet corded silk. On left lower collar, at upper edge, a worked loop and a loop of scarlet corded silk for attaching medals (now absent). Blue wool cloth three pointed slash cuff. Blue cloth piping at upper edge of cuff and on pointed, upper and lower edge of slash. Slash bears three buttons with corresponding buttonholes. Height, cuff: 2.7/8 in. Height, slash: 5.5 in. Rounded blue wool cloth shoulder strap. Bears Lieutenant Colonel’s anodised metal rank badges (crown and star). Half domed rimless anodised metal buttons. Front, die struck - a gun surmounted by a monarchial crown. Three on each side front, three on each cuff slash and one on each shoulder. Diameter: 0.75 in. Silver and blue metal thread and wool cloth proficiency badge. Front, embroidered - between two wings, a parachute all in silver wire embroidery upon a shaped blue cloth ground. Height: 1.1/8 in. Width: 2.25 in. Crimson silk like satin lining. Padded at side front and side back. Pocket in right front. White silk like satin sleeve lining. Black silk like satin shoulder strap lining. 31/8/2007 Lucy Scott