Officers Mess trousers : Captain M T Turrell, Royal Australian Infantry Corps

Dark blue wool barathea trousers, with high backed waist, and narrow red wool felt stripe extending down side seams to hem. The horizontal coin pocket at the front right hand hip is lined with cream cotton twill. The trouser have a black buttons at the waist and fly. The waist is lined with striped polished cotton and linen, with embroidered maker's label at centre back waist which reads ' C.G.C.F'. Fly lined with black cotton twill. Legs have scooped hems at the front and each inside ankle section at the back is reinforced with a thin strip of black leather.

Born in Sydney on 19 January 1938, Maxwell Thomas Turrell was educated at Crows Nest Intermediate Boys High School, and North Sydney Boys Technical High School. At both schools he served in the School Cadets, attaining the rank of cadet lieutenant. Turrell enlisted in the Australian Army in 1956, graduating from the Royal Military College, Duntroon.

In 1961, in the wake of the Malayan Emergency, Lieutenant Turrell served in Malaya with 2 Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (RAR). Operating as part of the 28th Commonwealth Brigade, Turrell commanded 11 Platoon, D Company, 2 RAR, conducting patrols of the 'Black Zone' on the Malay -Thailand border from 1962 to 1963. This was aimed at suppressing continued Communist Terrorists (CT) activity in the region. Turrell was promoted to captain and in May 1966, he was deployed to South Vietnam as adjutant of 6 RAR. Following his service in the Vietnam War, Turrell was promoted to major and appointed Officer Commanding 2nd Army Recruiting Unit. Major Turrell served in the Army until his discharge in 1981.