Full dress jacket : Captain J P Chirnside, Victorian Horse Artillery

Dark blue superfine jacket with red stand collar edged with gold lace and embroidered gold and silver bullion artillery grenades. Collar lined with black silk and fastened with two metal hooks and eyes. Top and lower edges of collar trimmed with gold bullion cord which also extends down the centre fronts and lower edge of the jacket. The front of the jacket is elaborately decorated with eighteen tapered rows of looped gold bullion cord, with a crowsfoot and twirl positioned at each shoulder and a brass hook for cap lines on the left, second row. Each looped row fastens at the front over a Victorian Military Forces gilt ball button. Beneath the looped fastenings the jacket is also fastened with rows of alternate brass hooks and eyes. The plaited gold wire shoulder straps have two embroidered bullion stars for the rank of Captain and a gilt button. The sleeves are decorated at the cuff with gold cord Austrian knots with gold Russia braid eyes and tracings and a single gilt button. At the back of the jacket, each panel seam is decorated with gold cord; beginning at the shoulder blades with crowsfoot design and ending at the side waist with Austrian knot and swirl. The gold cord at the bottom edge of the jacket forms a point at the centre back with two figure of eights on either side. The jacket is fully lined with quilted fawn silk twill. There is a concealed pocket at the left breast and a light tan leather waist liner. The sleeves are lined with white cotton and black silk at the cuffs.

John Percy Chirnside was born on 2 October 1865 at Skipton, Victoria. He was the youngest son of Andrew Chirnside, pastoralist. His father and uncle, Thomas, built the mansion Werribee Park in the mid-1870s where Percy settled following his education at Geelong Grammar School and overseas. Seeking a military career, Percy was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Victorian Field Artillery Brigade in June 1887. In 1889 Percy took command of a half-battery of horse artillery at Werribee that his father helped raise and maintain financially, including horses, uniforms, drill hall and stables. After his father's death in 1890, Percy and his brother continued to maintain the half-battery and Percy travelled to England for several months training at Woolwich and Aldershot. In January 1893 he was promoted to Captain but the following month the government disbanded the Werribee half-battery and Percy was placed on the reserve list of officers. He retired in 1897, having won a seat in Parliament in 1894. In June 1905 he was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, and after the First World War was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. During the war he served with the Remount Section of the British Army and was twice Mentioned in Dispatches. He died in Melbourne on 6 January 1944.

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