WW2 Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Pilot’s Working Dress Blouse Dated 1944

A very nice WW2 Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Working Dress Blouse to a Sub-Lieutenant Pilot. 

This Blouse is part of a grouping all to the same man which I have reluctantly decided to break up and sell individually as it is unclear what the name of the original Pilot was.

Made of very dark blue wool, this Jacket is in a good wartime configuration. This shown by there being standard Royal Navy officer’s buttons throughout but to the shoulder epaulettes a single row of zig-zag bullion rank tape for a Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve Sub-Lieutenant.

Post- war the RNVR adopted standard straight Royal Navy rank tape with the buttons reverting to the letters “R and V each side of the Anchor. 

In WW2 all wartime enlisted personnel to the Royal Navy were categorised as RNVR to differentiate them from the pre War professional Royal Navy.

To the inside of the rank curl on the epaulette is a bullion letter “A” for the Fleet Air Arm branch, then applied to the left breast a very nice set of bullion King’s crown pilots wings, this the correct position for the wings on the Working Dress Blouse.

Inside the Blouse is part lined in black cotton, with to the waistband a size label with a clear manufacturer’s date for 1944.

It is in very good service condition overall with no moth.

A lovely wartime FAA Pilot’s Blouse.