Full dress sword belt : Captain F N Parbury, Royal Field Artillery

Black leather sword belt with artillery pattern gold lace. Gilded brass buckle has an oval at each side bearing a lion statant guardant standing on a Queen Victoria crown. The two ovals are joined with a snake clasp bearing the motto 'UBIQUE'. At the back of the belt, towards each side are brass fittings for the attachment of sword slings. At the wearer's right side, the front of the belt is folded back on itself to allow for adjustment in size; the desired position secured with a brass ring and lace keeper.

Captain Frederick Nigel Parbury wore this sword belt with a full dress tunic. He was born in Satur, Scone, New South Wales on 13 May 1879 and joined the New South Wales Regiment of the Royal Australian Artillery in October 1899 as a 2nd lieutenant. In May 1900 he took up the offer of a commission in the Royal Field Artillery and joined 114th Battery at Colchester, UK, in January 1901. In September 1901 he served with the 20th Battery in South Africa, taking part in operations in Cape Colony and the Transvaal until December of that year, when he was promoted to lieutenant. From December until 31 May 1902, he took part in operations in the Orange River Colony. For his service in the Boer War he received the Queen's South Africa medal with five clasps. In 1905 Parbury served in India, first at Dinapore, then Lucknow in 1908 and finally Bareilly in 1913. He had been promoted to captain in January 1911. In September 1914 he left India for France to serve in the First World War on the Western Front. He was killed in action at La Bassee on 9 May 1915 when a shell exploded in his observation post. He had been promoted to major in January of that year. Parbury had married Julia Harriott in Sydney in 1912 and had one son, born in 1913.