Identification of this cap?

[ORISKANY]

Originally Posted by AndyC_65

Sorry - my bad.

I have had this picture engraved in my mind since being a small boy - this is what I was thinking of...



Actually, I had another picture in my mind - and she most definately not wearing a cap in that one....

Behave yourself! Sadly she died in 2011.

[Bill A]

Hi David, Missed your reply. I don't have access to that history, but the holes are the measurement you gave.

[DavidS]

Bill: Here's a scan of the pic of Rosamund Follis Miskolczi, p. 170 from Women Overseas: Memoirs of the Canadian Red Cross Corps, Francis Martin Day, ed. Of the 100 or so women pictured, there are only 2 wearing this style of cap. Others are mostly in berets, but some floppy crowned Ralph Kramden bus driver type caps as well.

[Bill A]

Thanks David. That certainly looks like the cap. I checked a few web pages, and found one other image, a similar cap, but image detail left a lot to be desired.

[servicepub]

The Red Cross uniform was a dark blue reminiscent of the Canadian Air Force of the early 1920s.
If the cap were war-time I would dismiss it as a cap worn by one of the many para-military women's groups that pre-dated the establishment of the CWAC. However, the Scullly tag is definitely postwar.
C