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Service dress tunic of Subaltern Mary L Dowie, Auxiliary Territorial Service, 1942-1945, with Defence Medal ribbon. Olive drab service dress tunic with brass general service buttons, blackened brass Auxiliary Territorial Service collar badges and subaltern’s two enamel rank pips to each epaulette, two buttoned breast pockets with additional press stud closures, two hidden waistband pockets and two lower pockets. Defence Medal ribbon above left breast pocket, olive lining with brass belt loops (some verdigris), evidence of historic repair to lining. Two inside pockets - the one on the right appears to have been a later addition, the one on the left has a tailor’s label for Carr, Son and Woor Limited, 1942. Most buttons have no maker’s mark, one epaulette button marked to Buttons Limited. Birmingham.

World War Two (1939-1945)