Other Ranks service dress tunic : Lance Corporal, 3 Division Engineers, AIF

Unlined khaki wool twill (serge) Other Rank's service dress tunic with stand and fall collar and oxidised brass Rising Sun badges at front collar edges secured with split brass pins. Self fabric shoulder straps are secured to the tunic with a small brown celluloid button; each strap bears a voided oxidised brass curved 'AUSTRALIA' title. The front of tunic has four patch pockets with brown celluloid buttoned flaps; the two pleated breast pockets have triple pointed flaps flap and the pair below, attached to the waistband, are larger and expanding with a straight flap. Above the top left pocket is a silk ribbon bar for the Military Medal. Tunic is fastened down the front with five brown celluloid buttons and has a wide integral waistband. At the top of each sleeve is a horizontally aligned purple oval wool flannel colour patch for 3 Division Engineers or Signals. Sleeves are gathered into straight cuffs secured with a brown plastic button. An inverted embroidered chevron on the right sleeve indicates the rank of lance corporal. The back of the tunic has a 50mm wide box pleat running down the centre from the base of the neck yoke. There is a patch pocket for a shell dressing inside the lower right front.

The Third Division was formed in Australia in March 1916. Its units trained in England in July that year before moving to France where they took over part of the 'nursery' sector near Armentieres. Their first major battle was at Messines in July 1917, before Broodseinde with the First and Second Divisions. In October 1917, the Third Division fought at Passchendaele (near Ypres) and suffered heavy losses. March 1918 saw 3 Division moving to the Somme area to slow down the German advance. Battles took place at Morlancourt and Villers Bretonneux, before they moved to stem the German advance west of Albert. The Division later fought in the Battles of Hamel, Amiens, Mont Saint Quentin and the Hindenburg Line.