Pair of full dress trousers : Lieutenant Colonel R Vandeleur Kelly, NSW Army Medical Corps

Dark forest green superfine wool trousers with a 42 mm wide gold lace band of the Army Medical Staff pattern extending down the side seams from the top of the waist edge to the trouser hems. Trousers are of the high rear waist V-pattern, supplied with a three pairs of black metal braces buttons mounted externally, each marked 'Sandilands London', plus a waist button and five smaller fly buttons. There are two concealed slash pockets on each side, each fitted with a small green leather button.

Related to the service of Robert Vandeleur Kelly. Kelly was born at Glencara, Ireland on 26 July 1843 and educated at Bonn and later at The King's School, Parramatta. He studied medicine at Edinburgh, graduating in 1873, and worked as a dispensary medical officer in the Westmeath Militia. Following his marriage in 1877 and a further 12 years as medical surgeon associated with a number of militia units, Kelly emigrated to Australia in 1889. Here, he established a practice in Sydney. Commissioned in the NSW Military Forces on 12 October 1889 and promoted to surgeon major on 9 January 1896, Kelly was the founder of the St John Ambulance Corps in NSW in 1890. As a temporary lieutenant colonel, Kelly served with the second and third contingents to the Boer War, commanding the NSW Army Medical Corps and serving in the Transvaal, Orange River Colony and was mentioned in dispatches. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1902 and died in 1913. He can be seen wearing this uniform in image P05942.001.