Service dress tunic : Gunner H H Horne, 30 Battery, 8 Field Artillery Brigade, AIF

Other ranks khaki wool serge service dress tunic with four patch pockets, oxidised 'Australia' shoulder titles, matching cloth colour patches for 3 Division Field Artillery (oval patch divided diagonally into dark blue and red), a gold metal braid wound stripe above the left sleeve, and three blue overseas service chevrons above the right cuff. A 205 mm x 80 mm blue half-armband has been sewn to each upper sleeve just below the colour patch.

Worn by 37420 Gunner Harold Hereward Horne, born 14 March 1898, a farmer of Leadville, NSW who enlisted on 17 February 1917. After training, Horne embarked for overseas service from Sydney aboard HMAT Port Sydney on 5 November1917. Gunner Horne contracted measles when his transport docked at Suez on 17 December and remained in hospital until 9 January 1918. Having missed his transport to France, Horne was required to sail from Port Said to Taranto in Italy and board a train for Cherbourg, France, where he embarked on a ship for Southhampton, in England on 2 February. After another month in hospital and training with 15 Training Battalion, Gunner Horne arrived in France on 19 June 1918 and was assigned to 3 Divisional Artillery Column before being transferred to 30th Battery, 8 Field Artillery Brigade on 19 August. He served with this unit until the end of the war, returned to Australia aboard HT Prinz Hubertus, arriving in Sydney on 26 August 1919. He was discharged as medically unfit with throat trouble on 25 December. The colour (medium blue) and material (a wool twill also used in hospitals) of the pair of armbands sewn to Horne's uniform suggests they may denote that the wearer is recovering from injuries or illness. Military Order 238, of 8 June 1918 states that: 'No officer, warrant officer, non-commissioned officer or man who is a patient of a military hospital ... undergoing medical treatment or on leave from such hospital, home or camp will be permitted to enter any hotel or other licensed premises for the purpose of consuming intoxicating liquor. On admission to hospital, every ... man will be issued with two pairs of blue armbands - one pair for attachment to his tunic and one pair for attachment to his great coat. These bands will be worn one on each arm, midway between the elbow and the point of the shoulder. They are to be sewn on or otherwise affixed so as not to be easily removable.' Convalescent patients normally wore an entire suit of 'hospital blues' together with a red neckerchief. Horne served in a part-time capacity with 25 Battalion, Volunteer Defence Force (VDC) during the Second World War.