NAM.1998-02-3-2

Mess vest from uniform worn by Col Andrew Jeffrey Pinion, Royal Regiment of Artillery 1961 (c)-1991 (c). Original owner: Brigadier Charles George Harley Arnold. Blue wool cloth body front, v-shaped neck, single breasted. Silk like satin body back. Brass half domed rimless buttons. White silk like satin lining. Body front - on each front a welt pocket. Four buttons with corresponding buttonholes down centre front. Attached to each side at waist a strap of self fabric. The straps fastened together at centre back waist with a blackened metal, double prong buckle, bearing the legend, ‘BRITISH’. Blue wool cloth roll, v-shaped collar at front only. Buttons - front, die struck - a guns surmounted by a monarchial crown. Four at centre front with corresponding buttonholes.