Winter service dress tunic : Flight Sergeant S A Carr, Royal Australian Air Force

Other rank's RAAF blue wool serge winter service dress tunic with self fabric belt, black plastic buckle, and four button fasten down front with black plastic RAAF king's crown and eagle buttons. An engineer's embroidered brevet, showing a single white wing and a white letter 'E' within a pale blue wreath, is sewn to an aluminium cut out which is held in place above the left breast pocket with a pair of split pins. Each sleeve bears three pale blue woven wool chevrons surmounted by an oxidised brass king's crown for the rank of flight sergeant. There is a light blue woven eagle sewn to the head of each sleeve. Five woven red service chevrons are sewn above the right cuff. The tunic has a pair of breast pockets with single pointed flaps fastened by a single black plastic RAAF button. These have two seams running down the vertical length of the pocket to mimic the pleat that was sewn into such pockets before fabric rationing was introduced in 1942 as an economy measure. There is a pair of inset welt pockets over each hip with rectangular flaps. The pocket bags on the lower pockets, lining of all pocket flaps and partial lining across the back shoulders is of plain black cotton. The sleeves are lined with blue and white striped cotton. Woven manufacturer's label sewn to lining inside back reads 'V470 MADE IN AUSTRALIA 1943'.

Associated with the service of Sidney Alwyn Carr, born 16 April 1920, at Port Lincoln, South Australia. Carr was a trainee motor mechanic when he enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) on 14 May 1940, and trained as a Fitter IIE, qualifying in Wasp rotary engine maintenance in February 1941. He was promoted to leading aircraftman in July 1941; to corporal in August 1942; sergeant in June 1944, when he also qualified as a flight engineer; and to flight sergeant on December 1944. In May 1945, after completing officer training he was commissioned as a pilot officer. Apart from a brief period attached to 24 Squadron in 1942, then operating Wirraways out of Townsville, Carr served with 11 Squadron, operating Catalina aircraft out of Rathmines from May 1942, and finally with the newly raised 42 Squadron, from August 1944, also operating Catalinas. When Carr first transferred to the latter unit the squadron was flying out of Melville Island in the Northern Territory, on reconnaissance and escort duties to New Guinea, and later in mine laying operations over the Celebes in the Dutch East Indies. By the beginning of 1945 most of the squadron’s aircraft had moved to Morotai, again involved in mining laying in Brunei Bay, Tarakan, Sanadakan, Surabaya and the Philippines. At the end of the war, in August 1945, the squadron helped in the evacuation of prisoners of war from Manila in the Philippines, and returning army personnel from Labuan in the Dutch East Indies. Pilot Officer Carr was discharged on 29 November 1945.