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Australian Army Museum of Western Australia > Records

World War 2, South West Pacific Theatre, Imperial Japanese Navy, 1945

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Japanese Rank and Trade Cloth Insignia, (donated 2015)

This black material strip has original Japanese Imperial Navy rank and trade cloth insignia.

Historical information

By 1920, Japan had the third largest navy in the world, behind the British Royal Navy and the United States Navy. This insignia, worn on the upper right sleeve, signified the rank of a first class leading seaman, a machine woven black patch with three horizontal bars above a stylized anchor. An alloy cherry blossom flower the colour of the Navy branch, (e.g. Engineering was purple), would have been affixed between the bars and the anchor.

Details

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Registration number

cwa-org-32-54-735

Contextual information

This uniform element formed part of the VP (Victory in the Pacific) special 80th Anniversary Exhibition presented at the Australian Army Museum of Western Australia from 6 to 24 August 2025

Last modified

Sunday, 10 August, 2025

Completeness

72

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