Service dress trousers : Lieutenant Colonel L Dyke, South Australian Artillery

Dark blue superfine trousers with high backed waist and wide scarlet superfine stripe extending down side seams to hem.Horizontal welt pocket at each front lined with cream cotton twill. On the reverse of the right pocket, written in black ink, 'A.J. Rhodes'. Black coated brass buttoned waist and fly with buttons stamped on front 'SHIERLAW & CO ADELAIDE'. Waist lined with striped polished cotton sateen and linen, with embroidered maker's label at centre back waist. Fly lined with linen and black cotton twill. Legs have scooped hems at the front and each inside ankle section at the back is reinforced with a thin strip of black leather.

Worn by Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Dyke, VD, during his service with the South Australian Artillery. Dyke was born in 1859 and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Garrison Artillery in 1881. He was promoted to captain in 1889 and to major in 1894. Dyke was placed on the supernumeracy list in 1899, but rejoined the Garrison Artillery in 1905. He was in charge of Fort Glanville in the early part of the twentieth century. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel (staff) in 1911 before being placed on the retired list in 1913. During the First World War he served in the AIF Sea Transport Service making a return trip on troopships to Egypt in 1915-1916. He was made an honorary colonel in 1919.