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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KingofThings, post: 47510, member: 468&quot;]Those posters are good help and great to see anyway! Thanks!</p><p>The more I research the more I&#039;m convinced she may not be US Navy but may be Royal Navy be it British, Canadian, Australian or New Zealand or... I&#039;ve not researched other countries as are in Northwestern Europe, or elsewhere, but have seen things here and there which didn&#039;t spur me to go that way. Ireland has a navy but didn&#039;t this early and Scotland&#039;s disbanded in 1707. </p><p>The flattened or horizontal eagle is at issue as well as the badge&#039;s border. That there isn&#039;t a &#039;rate&#039; between the eagle and the 2 down pointing chevrons doesn&#039;t help. The flattened chevrons are more certainly navy, or another sea service, than any other military service. I only find a flattened chevron like that on a women&#039;s left arm but later and British. It could be that women didn&#039;t have ratings at this time and were &#039;only&#039; yeoman, or some similar service, and it wasn&#039;t required to note that with a rating badge. That she is almost certainly a 2nd class petty officer, as based on today&#039;s US Navy, Coast Guard, etc. and some other countries, is a good thing that this has been awarded to her as it would mean she&#039;s got her...umm...stuff together and been in service for some time... Unless this coat isn&#039;t hers as I guessed earlier though I hope I&#039;m wrong. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>At times rating and rank badges have changed arm displays but usually it was placed on the right arm earlier in time as is this photo. There isn&#039;t anything in the photo to ascertain that this negative wasn&#039;t flipped and that is her left arm not right. She could be one of the +- 5,500 WRNS (Women&#039;s Royal Navy Service) (also called: WRENS) which began in 1917. They were not without sacrifice with the first being lost serving aboard ship in 1918. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" /> This is where I lean the most but cannot find a single thing to pin that down to be certain...again...if it&#039;s her coat.</p><p>But...I will put this photo out to my connections and see what we see. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; I really would like to solve or have this solved by someone else. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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