Full dress tunic : Captain F N Parbury, Royal Field Artillery

Dark blue superfine tunic with scarlet stand collar. Collar decorated all round with round gold cord; upper edge with gold artillery pattern lace and embroidered gold bullion grenade collar badges at each edge. Round gold cord artillery pattern shoulder cords lined with dark blue wool and each carrying three embroidered bullion and silk stars to denote the rank of captain and secured with a small gilt Royal Artillery button. Each cuff is decorated for the rank of lieutenant with round gold cord Austrian knots traced with gold Russia braid and two small gilt artillery buttons. Nine, large, gilded brass artillery buttons made by 'JENNENS & Co LONDON' at the front and two at the back waist. Fronts and upper edge of back skirt vent, piped with crimson wool. On each side of the back vent is a flap decorated with round gold cord traced on the inside with gold Russia braid and three large gilded brass artillery buttons. Body of tunic and sleeves lined with padded and quilted brown silk twill. Collar and skirt lined with black silk twill. Concealed pocket at left breast lined with white cotton twill. Single white shell button stitched to left side of collar lining and at centre back a parchment maker's label only partially legible. Neck fastens with two brass hooks and eyes.

Artillery tunic made in Sydney for Frederick Nigel Parbury, probably while still a lieutenant as indicated by the sleeve decoration. Captains' tunics usually included braided eyes around the Austrian knot which this tunic does not have. A photo of Parbury shows that he continued to wear this tunic even after his promotion to captain. 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.

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