Service dress tunic : Lieutenant C R Fenwicke, 3 Squadron AFC

Australian Flying Corps (AFC) officers khaki wool gabardine service dress tunic with open collar. The lieutenant's rank insignia, curved 'AUSTRALIA' shoulder titles, and Australian Army general service collar badges are oxidised brass. Four large blackened brass buttons made by J.R.GAUNT& SON LTD LONDON Large buttons secure the front opening. The pair of patch pockets on the breast are box-pleated with a buttoned scalloped flap. Above the left breast pocket is an AFC observers silk embroidered brevet (wings). The larger pair of patch pockets below the waistline, are expanding with a striaght edged buttoned flap. All the oxidised brass buttons have AUSTRALIAN MILITARY FORCES surrounding a map of Australia with an imperial crown embossed on the top. Sewn onto both sleeve shoulders is the full-size triangular blue, dark blue and red colour patch worn by AFC units, above a miniature rectangular pale blue over red colour patch of 5 Light Horse Regiment, AIF. Stitching remnants in the fabric above the point of the right cuff indicate that an overseas service chevron was fitted to the tunic but it has been removed. 'Lt. C R. Fenwick 25/745. 13.8.18' has been hand written on the bottom of the faded white cotton maker's label that is sewn inside the back of the collar. The tunic is lined with khaki/bronze cotton sateen and the sleeves with light green/khaki cotton twill. A pocket with a slit opening has been let into the lining of the left breast. There are brass belt hooks on both sides of the wasit. The rear of the tunic has a centre seam and a single vent.

This tunic was worn in 1918 by Lieutenant (Observer) Christopher Rupert Fenwicke, 3 Squadron AFC. Fenwicke enlisted in the AIF on 22 July 1915 and embarked for overseas service on 5 October 1915. He served with 5 Light Horse Regiment before transferring to the AIF in 1918. Fenwicke joined No. 1 School of Military Aviation, Reading on 10 May 1918 to undergo training as a Flying Officer (Observer). He qualified as an Observer on 11 August and was promoted to the rank of Second Lieutenant. He was taken on strength of No. 3 Squadron AFC on 14 September and remained with that unit until the end of the war. Fenwicke was promoted Lieutenant on 11 November and returned to England on 4 March 1919 for embarkation to Australia. He boarded the Kaiser-i-Hind on 6 May and landed in Australia on 19 June. Fenwicke was discharged on 11 August 1919.

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