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Service Jackets of the Australian Army and Support Units Page 3

This jacket was worn by Lieutenant Francis Bede Stafford who enlisted in the AIF (SN 675) on 23 December 1914.

Served in 2 Light Horse Machine Gun Squadron in Palestine.

Appointed Second Lieutenant on 6 November 1917.

Seconded to Machine Gun Training Squadron on 26 January 1918 and promoted Lieutenant on 6 February 1918.

Returned to Australia on 28 June 1919. Died 4 September 1966.

	Officers blues dress wool serge jacket : Lieutenant General Sir John Monash, Australian Army
	Long sleeved safari style tunic. Associated with NX525 Lieutenant H G Quail, a crew commander with A Squadron, 6 Division Cavalry Regiment, 2nd AIF.
	Short sleeved safari style jacket : Lieutenant H G Quail, 6 Division Cavalry Regiment, 2nd AIF.

This jacket was worn by 155 Sergeant Herbert Choice Toone.

A crewman on pearling luggers in Broome, Western Australia, he enlisted in the AIF in 1914.

Served in France with 16 and 48 Battalions.

Toone was taken Prisoner of War at Passchendaele in 1917 and issued with this jacket by the Germans.

He later escaped, and returned to Australia on 12 April 1919.

RMC Duntroon Officer Cadet's, first pattern, khaki, full dress, woollen tunic. 1913

The tunic has a stand collar with scarlet tabs, and scarlet cuffs.

There is a pair of darts on both sides of the collar and a curved seam on both sides of the back of the tunic.

The six brass buttons on the front of the tunic are paired, and there is a pair of smaller buttons on both cuffs.

All of the buttons are embossed with the cypher of Ed.VII around which is 'AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH'. There is a central longitudinal half-inch wide scarlet stripe on both of the epaulettes. Inside the collar there are four small white buttons for attaching a collar (the fifth button on the right side is missing). Inside the left breast is a fob pocket, and both of the sleeves are lined with ticking-like fabric. The maker's stamp is inside the top of the left sleeve. The tunic is not lined and has no external pockets.