Tropical issue boots : Australian Army

Australian Army issue black leather ankle boots with toe cap and reinforcement around the heel. This reinforcement strip ends in a loop at the back of the ankle. The soles are made of leather with hobnails in the heel and stitching around the edges of the sole. Attached to the ball of the sole are 26 steel studs for grip. The toe is reinforced with a metal plate. The arch is stamped with '10/N'. The inside of the boot is lined with brown leather secured with small nails. The leather is stamped '10-N C.A. 1945'. Each boot is tied with a length of leather cord threaded through six pairs of eyelets. The expanding tongue is made of soft leather and attached to the sides of the boot.

Worn by Warrant Officer H C Standen during his service in the Australian Army in the 1950s. Standen was born in the United Kingdom and joined the British Army on 16 October 1939. He was commissioned into the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment early in 1941 and sent to the Pacific Theatre. Captured at the fall of Singapore in February 1942, Standen became a prisoner of the Japanese for the remainer of the war and returned to England weighing 5 1/2 stone. Emigrating to Australia in 1949, he transferred to the Australian Army and was discharged on medical grounds in 1954.