Bombardier's service dress tunic : Victorian Field Artillery

Dark blue wool twill tunic with scarlet stand collar edged all round with yellow worsted square braid. Brass artillery badges at each edge of collar. Dark blue shoulder straps edged with scarlet wool piping, each with brass 'C VFA' badge and a small brass Victorian Military Forces button. Cuffs decorated with yellow worsted square braid Austrian knots. Above the knot on the left sleeve is an embroidered gold bullion 2nd Class Gunnery badge on a blue wool ground and, above this, an embroidered gold bullion marksmanship badge of crossed rifles surmounted by a crown for the best shot in a battery. On the left sleeve above the elbow is a single gold lace chevron on a red ground denoting the rank of bombardier. Nine brass Victorian Military Forces buttons made by 'H.W. MARTIN LONDON' at front and two at back waist. Back skirt has three closed vents, the centre one piped with scarlet wool and on each side of this the two other vents have a three pointed sword flap, each with three Victorian Military Forces buttons made by either 'BOWLEY & Co. MELBOURNE' or ' MOUBRAY ROWAN & HICKS MELBOURNE' and piped with scarlet wool. Brass belt hooks at each side of the waist. Lower edge of tunic left raw. Tunic and collar fully lined with black cotton sateen. Concealed pocket inside left breast lined with grey cotton twill. On the inside wool facing of the right front, printed in white is 'VA 1076'. Sleeves lined with plain white cotton; written on the left lining in black ink is 'H McKENNA' and on the right lining 'G. EWER' and 'H McKENNA' in blue ink. Neck fastened with single ferrous metal hook and eye.

In 1884 the Victorian Field Artillery had three batteries, grouped together to form the Metropolitan Brigade of Field Artillery under Lieutenant Colonel Sargood. By 1890 the Field Artillery numbered 16 officers and 252 other ranks.

• Service dress trousers : Victorian Field Artillery