WW2 Maritime Ant-Aircraft Artillery, 2nd pattern cloth formation sign

Dark blue rectangle embroidered with a white R A; red fouled anchor between the letters. The white elements to front now look yellow (from age /nicotine).

Introduced in 1942, this formation sign was worn by the Royal Artillery gun crews that were deployed in harbours and also on Defensively Equipped Merchant Navy Ships (DEMS) to provide protection.

BoBD (Jon Mills) p232 refers.

Comm MaWi (10)

Code: 69576