Service dress tunic : Sergeant A F Toone, Anzac Provost Corps, 2 Light Horse Brigade, AIF

Khaki green woollen service dress tunic, possibly tailored from Australian early-war pattern fabric. Stand and fall collar with oxidised brass general service badges (Rising Sun) and front edge of collar points sewn down. Front of tunic has four patch pockets with pointed flaps and brown celluloid buttons; the two breast pockets are box pleated and the pair below the waistband are larger and expanding. Topstitched waistband has no buckle and the tunic is fastened in a shirt-fronted style with five brown celluloid buttons. There are brass belt hooks sewn below the waistband at each side seam. Khaki shoulder straps have a single celluloid button and oxidised brass 'AUSTRALIA' titles. At the top of each sleeve is the rectangular colour patch of 2 Light Horse Brigade with a brass 'A' attached through the centre of each with a brass split pin. Rather than the designated scarlet red, these colour patches are maroon in colour. Below both of the colour patches are Anzac leave badges of red, white, and blue wool rosettes, worn while on leave in Australia. A sergeant's woven chevron is sewn onto the right sleeve below the rosette. The cuffs are pointed with no buttons, similar to those found on officer's tunics rather than the buttoned round cuff usually found on OR's tunics. Both sleeves have an extra panel inserted rather than the usual single seam. Above the point of the right sleeve cuff is an embroidered overseas service chevron which includes a red stripe for service in 1914. The back of the tunic has a 55mm wide box pleat running down the centre. The collar and underside of the fall are lined with khaki cotton drill fabric, but the tunic is otherwise unlined. The inside of the hem is lined with a 25mm wide band of khaki woollen fabric.

This tunic was worn by 654 Sergeant Albert Francis Toone possibly on the occasion of his marriage to Mary Lawson in Queanbeyan in 1919. The tunic is unusual in its tailoring and may have been made especially for the wedding or homecoming. Toone enlisted as a private in 2 Light Horse Brigade Headquarters, AIF on 27 October 1914. Prior to enlisting, he was a trooper with the NSW Mounted Police.

On leaving Australia on 20 December 1914, he served at Gallipoli attached to headquarters staff, 1 Australian Division, but was evacuated to the Military Hospital on Lemnos Island with tonsillitis in June 1915. He returned to Gallipoli and was promoted to corporal in August 1915. Shortly after, he was again taken ill and evacuated to hospitals at Malta and in England. He served with the Military Mounted Police, reorganised in March 1916 as the Anzac Provost Corps, in Egypt, Sinai and Palestine.

He was promoted to sergeant in September 1916. As a sergeant he would have been in command of a detachment of ten men whose duties included town patrols, VIP and hospital escorts, route reconaissance, water discipline and field security. All members of the Provost corps were required to have first seen enemy action. He returned to Australia on 15 January 1919, and was discharged on 23 April 1919.