The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Dark blue wool twill jacket with red stand collar edged with square yellow worsted braid and lined with same wool twill. Yellow worsted braid extends down centre front and lower edge of jacket where it forms two figures of eight at the back seams. The front is decorated with thirteen rows of yellow square braid loops tapered from the shoulders to the waist. At the shoulders, the braid finishes with a crowsfoot and swirl. At the second row, left side, is a ferrous metal hook for cap lines. Each looped row fastens at the front over Victorian Horse Artillery gilt ball buttons made by 'FIRMINS Ltd LONDON'. Metal hooks and eyes are positioned between each looped fastening on the inside edge of the jacket. Shoulder straps of a double row of yellow square worsted braid are looped around a small gilt ball button. The sleeves are decorated with yellow worsted braid Austrian knots. At the back of the jacket each seam is decorated with the same worsted braid beginning at the shoulder with a crowsfoot and ending with an Austrian knot and swirl at each side of the waist. The jacket is fully lined with a coarse white wool twill, with 'V.H.A 216' stamped in black ink at the right breast. Beneath this lining, the chest section has been padded and covered with red wool flannel. There is a concealed pocket lined with calico inside the left breast where the name 'F. Grey' has been written in ink. Sleeves lined with calico and at right armhole stamped in black, 'W' followed by a broad arrow, a 'D' and underneath, another 'D'.
Jacket worn by 216 Gunner F Grey, Victorian Horse Artillery, possibly as part of the Rupertswood battery. In 1884 the Nordenfelt (Rupertswood) battery was raised at Sunbury in Victoria. In 1889 it changed its name to the Victorian Horse Artillery and was divided into two half batteries; the left half at Werribee park, run by the Chirnside family, and the right half at Rupertswood, run by the Clarke family. The Werribee battery was disbanded in 1893 while the Rupertswood battery continued until 1897. Although there is no maker's label in the jacket, it may have been made in the United Kingdom by the Royal Clothing Factory at Pimlico. The materials used in this jacket are similar to those described in jackets made at Pimlico in 'The Galloping Guns' by Lindsay C. Cox, p.126.
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