Jacket, Black Drill, Working Dress (SP 1935): Lance-Corporal, Royal Tank Corps
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Single-breasted blouse-style garment of black drill with stand collar, fly-fronted, epaulettes, amd pleated breast pockets and straight-cut flaps. All buttons are of dished metal form and a single rank chevron is sewn to the right upper sleeve. The waist band terminates with an open brass single-prong buckle and fabric tab closure.
Instituted in the hope of avoiding war, appeasement was the name given to Britain’s policy in the 1930s of allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked. Most closely associated with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, it is now widely discredited as a policy of weakness. Yet at the time, it was a popular and seemingly pragmatic policy.
