Officer's undress winter jacket : Lieutenant R A E Cansdale, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

Naval officer's blue superfine wool, winter undress double breasted jacket, with gilt naval officer's buttons, 'wavy' gold lace rank stripes on each cuff for a lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and medal ribbons on the left breast for 1939-45 Star, Atlantic Star, Africa Star with rosette for Royal Navy Inshore Squadrons in the Mediterranean between October 1942 and May 1943, Italy Star, Defence Medal and British War Medal 1939-45. The jacket is lined with black polished cotton twill and has an inset pocket on the left breast and two welt pockets over each front hip. There are two short vents on either side of the centre back panels.

Robert Antony (Tony) Evelyn Cansdale entered the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in March 1942 as a rating. After training he was posted, in June 1942 to the sloop HMS Folkestone protecting convoys from Northern Ireland to West and North Africa, the West Indies and Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. In March 1943 he transferred to HMS Royal Alfred, a shore establishment, to undertake officer training and was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant (Special Branch). He subsequently worked with small boats in North Africa and Italy before being transferred to the small boats depot at Bennelong Point in Sydney in 1945. Cansdale signed on for a further two years service at the end of the Second World War and served first in Malta and then in Palestine in late 1946 and 1947, turning back illegal immigrant ships. While in Palestine he met and married, on 19 November 1947, Lena Cohn, a Jewish refugee from Danzig, who had moved to Haifa with her family in 1936. The couple emigrated to Australia a month after their marriage.

• Officer's undress winter trousers : Lieutenant R A E Cansdale, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve