Service dress tunic : Brevet Lieutenant Colonel C H Bartlett, New South Wales Headquarters Staff

Loose fitting dark blue wool serge tunic with stand collar and pointed cuffs. The collar bears scarlet wool gorget patches, each with red gimp braid extending down the centre and finishing at a brass stud towards the point. Plain pointed cuffs have a side opening stitched closed with two small New South Wales Military Forces buttons. Blue serge shoulder straps each decorated with an embroidered gold bullion crown and a star to denote the rank of lieutenant colonel, and a small NSW Military Forces button. Front is fastened with five small NSW Military Forces buttons all made by 'C ANDERSON SYDNEY'. Front of tunic has two breast pockets, each with a three-pointed flap and fastened with a single NSW Military Forces button in the centre. Offset beneath these are two slightly larger flap pockets with the flaps sewn closed and with no buttons or buttonholes. Above the left breast pocket are silk medal ribbons for the Egypt Medal and the Khedive's Star. The back of the tunic is plain with two lower back vents. Only the fronts of the tunic are lined with black fine wool and cotton mixture. There is a concealed vertical pocket inside each breast and the lower lining has a plastic buttoned welt pocket on each side. The lining is slightly padded around the armholes. The collar is lined with the same black fabric and stitched to this are five small fabric covered buttons to take a starched white collar liner; attached to two of these buttons is a strip of stiff coated white fabric. The neck is fastened with two ferrous metal hooks and eyes. Stitched to the back neck facing is a fabric maker's label. Sleeves are lined with striped white cotton twill.

Frock style tunic worn by Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Bartlett probably from 1899 onwards. Charles Henry Falkner Hope Bartlett was born in 1 August 1853 at Broadwater Station, near Maitland in NSW. His first military appointment was as a lieutenant in the East Maitland Company of the Northern Battalion, NSW Volunteer Force in 1872. In March 1875 he was promoted to captain. He reverted to the rank of lieutenant in 1878 when his corps were amalgamated but was promoted again to captain in 1880. Bartlett resigned in 1883 when he took up an appointment as adjutant in the NSW Permanent Military Forces. In 1885 he went to the Sudan as adjutant with the New South Wales Infantry Contingent to the campaign. He took part in the advance on Tamai and was Mentioned in Despatches. He received the Egypt medal with clasp 'Suakin 1885' and the Khedive's Star. In 1887 Bartlett went to England where he underwent training in musketry and in the operation of Gardiner and Nordenfeldt guns. After his return to Australia Bartlett was promoted to major in 1887. He was deputy assistant adjutant general on the NSW Headquarters staff from 1893 to 1895. He received a promotion as brevet lieutenant colonel in 1899 and was appointed to the administrative and instructional staff of the 3rd and 4th Regiments in 1902. In 1906 he became assistant adjutant general and chief staff officer with the Commonwealth Military Forces where he was recommended for promotion to Colonel. Bartlett was appointed aide-de-camp to the governor-general, the Earl of Dudley, in 1909 and retired as a colonel on 1 April 1912. He died on 17 June 1916 at Woolahra, Sydney.