Thank you for your opinion.
Thank you for your opinion.
Standard summer white tunic, anyone's guess as to when the cuff title was added...
The white summer tunics tend to have removable insignia - though not always - to preserve the integrity of these items during the frequent washings of the garment.
It seems a little odd - though not impossible - that the cuff title would be permanently attached, rather than fitted with press-studs. As Bob says, difficult to be absolutely certain to know, or prove, when it was added.
Also, if the EKII ribbon is worn on the medal ribbon bar, it should not (officially) be worn in the buttonhole as well.
My suspicion would be that it has been dressed up a little by a dealer or collector, as are most purported FJ tunics.
That said, it is a very smart tunic.
If close, in-hand inspection reveals the cuff title to be a post-war addition (and it certainly appears to be, from the photographs), it might be possible to carefully remove it and steam out the stitch holes left in the tunic cloth.
More pictures of the details
Thank you all very much ;-)
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