Name/Title
Service Dress Jacket, B.G. PEACOCK,Entry/Object ID
01.21.03Description
Black Service Dress tunic of Captain B. G. Peacock of the Halton Rifles. The jacket has four flap pockets and gauntlet style cuffs.Use
Service dress was the day to day working uniform of the Canadian Army from the 1900's to the 1960's. It could be worn as both a daily working uniform and as a field uniform. With the introduction of battledress in the late 1930's, service dress became a slightly formal garrison style of uniform.Context
Named to B.G. PEACOCK, 1925. In the 1920's, the Halton Rifles moved away from the khaki service dress as the everyday uniform, reverting to a rifle regiment pattern of dress. The uniform was a black jacket and trousers with black and silver rank badges for officers or black on red for other ranks. Black buttons were worn. Officers and senior NCO's also wore a black leather cross belt over the right shoulder and under the left arm.
Graham Peacock served overseas during the Second World War and retired in the rank of major on release from the Army in 1945.
