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- 1961 (Creation)
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Blue grey wool short Royal Air Force No. 5 Mess Dress uniform tailored jacket to go with trousers 2019.208.9. The jacket is waist length with a turn down collar and wide pointed lapels in grey grosgrain silk. On the left lapel is the RAF Flight Engineers half brevet badge - embroidered in gold thread on a blue grey background the design is of two bronze laurel branches encircling the capital letter 'E' with a single wing in gold wire, extending to the right as viewed. The cuffs are embellished with three rows of gold braid - the insignia of a Wing Commander.
The front of the jacket has six gold coloured brass buttons on the front embossed with the RAF emblem, three on each side. The buttons are narrowly spaced at the waist and widen to the chest. There are four buttonholes , two on each side. At the back the bottom of the jacket is cut in two curves over the hips meeting at a point in the centre waist. The back is cut in three curved panels. It is lined in cream rayon with lines of machine quilting under the arms and across the front sides. There is a hanging loop in the back of the neck and tailors label on the inside of a pocket in the lining on the right side.
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Materials: wool, rayon, metal, silk
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The Flight Engineer half brevet was introduced in 1942. The first half brevet was introduced between 1915 and 1918 for Observers. This remained the only one until that for Air Gunners was introduced in 1939, which introducing the pattern of letters contained in a wreath that was followed by all subsequent such half brevets. The growth in such brevets was driven by the introduction of larger aircraft and therefore larger crews with specialist skills. The half brevets were worn in the same manner as the pilots' flying badge, on the left breast, above the medal ribbons. Several variants of the brevets exist, with the number of feathers ranging from twelve to seventeen.
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- McDonough, John Ignatius (Subject)