Officer's service dress trousers : Captain P W Fisher, 15 Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery, AIF

Australian Army tailor-made khaki officer's service dress trousers. The trousers have a concealed five button fly, two waist buttons and six buttons located on the waistband for the attachment of braces. There are two internal waist pockets, an external coin pocket on the right front waistband and one internal rear pocket on the right. A maker's label is sewn into the rear seam and is marked, 'W. CHORLEY & CO PTY LTD GEORGE STREET SYDNEY'. Typed on the label is, '30635 12/7/43 CAPT. P.W. FISHER'.

Worn by NX154642 Captain P W Fisher, 15 Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery. Born at Artarmon, NSW in 1916, Peter Wallace Fisher was a barrister and member of the Australian Military Force (Artillery) at the outbreak of the Second World War. In August 1941, N85071 Lieutenant P W Fisher was Second in Command of the Anti-Aircraft and Anti-Military Landing Craft Section (AA/AMLC) when he arrived in Rabaul as part of Lark Force. Fisher was one of just seven of 53 officers and men of that unit to survive the Japanese assault on Rabaul in early 1942 when he was rescued off Palmalmal and returned to Australia. In 1943 Fisher was seconded to the AIF, promoted to captain, allocated the service number NX154642 and assigned to 15 Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery. He received his discharged in October 1944.