Pair of rank shoulder slides: Australian Army - Chaplain D A Ganly, 9 Battalion

Pair of khaki cotton drill captain's rank slides with two black stripes for an army chaplain stitched parallel down the length. Three oxidised brass rank stars are fastened in between. A woven patch with the word 'AUSTRALIA' is stitched at the base of each rank slide.

Associated with VX114018 Chaplain Donald A Ganly, Church of England. Ganly was born in 1913 and served with 25/33 Garrison Battalion, 14 Prisoner of War and Internment Camp, Loveday Group at Barmera, South Australia in March 1943. In 1944 he served with 9 Battalion in the Pacific campaign, and was present during an attack on Little George Hill on Bouganville Island by troops of 18 Platoon, D Company on 29 November 1944.