I was rewatching The Battle of the River Plate last night and Cmdre Harry Harwood (Anthony Quayle) was wearing rear-admiral rank on his reefer jacket. This explains it. There was also a lieutenant on the bridge with a letter in his curl and I knew this was before the reserve R. Then I saw him climb into the scout plane and could see it was an A.
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