Trousers: First Officer Ian Robert Llewellyn, Air Transport Auxiliary

Pair of black wool twill trousers with high notched waist at rear, slash pockets in each side seam, welt pockets over each rear hip, five button fly, single button fastening at waist and eight buttons sewn around the inside of the waist for the attachment of braces. A self fabric strap with white metal slide is set below the waistband to the rear of the side seams to enable the fit to be adjusted. The waist and fly are lined with white and black cotton twill, and coarse brown linen. The pocket bags are of white linen. All buttons are black plastic, with one missing from rear welt pocket. A manufacturer's label sewn in the inside rear waist is no longer legible.

Ian Robert Llewellyn was born in Mansfield, Victoria on 21 August 1911. He worked as a bank clerk in the Commonwealth Bank after he left school, and also served in the militia in the 18th Battery, 2nd Heavy Brigade, Australian Garrison Brigade in 1928 and 1929. In August 1939, shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War he undertook flying training at Geelong, which he continued until the end of November 1940, when he gained civil aviation licence number 3427.

Although Llewellyn served in the Citizen Military Forces from 1928 to 1932 and his younger brother, Keith, enlisted in the AIF in 1942, there is no evidence of Ian's enlistment in any service in Australia during the war. It is possible that he tried to enlist in the RAAF and was rejected on medical or physical grounds. Instead, Ian Llewellyn joined the merchant navy sailing as a steward to Panama aboard the New Zealand freighter MV Kaimata. In September 1942 Llewellyn transferred to the British Reardon Smith Line's MV Cornish City, which he left when the ship arrived in Britain on 27 November 1942.

At an unknown date Llewellyn joined the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), service number 8306. The ATA was a civilian air force of men and women from Britain, the Commonwealth and other nations with a wartime strength of 1,152 men and 600 women. Of these 166 were pilots or flight engineers. The ATA was responsible for ferrying all types of aircraft from factories, maintenance depots and operational RAF airfields. Pilots and engineers who would not have qualified for the RAF on physical or medical grounds were accepted. Llewellelyn's uniform does not have ATA pilot's wing's attached, and they appear never to have been present so it is not known whether he flew for them as a pilot. If he did, the fact that records show him visiting RAF Hutton Cranswick a number of times suggests that he flew fighter aircraft, not bombers.

Llewellyn returned to Mansfield after the war. Electoral records show that he was a garage proprietor there in the late 1940s and 1950s, before working as a clerk and finally as an accountant. He died there on 29 June 1977.