Historical information

Original Owner "Ernest LENSING" No. 214263

Physical description

Service dress jacket, belt, lanyard and trousers.
1. Jacket, Khaki colour wool/polyester fabric. Service dress style with collar, shoulder epaulettes, front four patch pockets with button down flaps. Silver colour plastic buttons with shank and metal round pin. All buttons have raised emblem Queen's Crown, tank and boomerang - Royal Australian Armoured Corps. Collar badges - silver colour plastic with metal holder. Queen's Crown, Tank and Boomerang. Rank Insignia cloth patch, top lowr sleeve, Queen's Crown embroidered in gold, white, red and green - Warrant Officer. Right sleeve top solder patch yellow and pale blue parachute and wings - Parachute Wings. Lining green colour polyester fabric. Manufacturers label - white cotton fabric - right side lining. Above left pocket Four Service Ribbons; L.-R.
1. General Service Medal 1962,
2. Vietnam Medal,
3.
4. South Vietnamese Medal.

4. Trousers - fabric as per jacket, service dress style with fob pocket, two side pockets and on back pocket with button. Waistband, belt loops, brown colour plastic buttons and metal zipper fly. Lining - green colour polyester fabric. Manufacturers labels three - white cotton fabric.

Inscriptions & markings

Manufacturer's information on labels - black ink print. 2. Red ink print.
1. "KEITH COURTENAY PTY LTD/ VICTORIA/ 1975-1976/ ^/ NAME/ SERVICE NO". Handwritten black ink - "8/13 VMR/ WO2/ LENSING/ 15280". Two lower labels - illegible.
4. "SI-RO-SET"/ CREASED BY C.S.I.R.O. REQUIREMENTS/ AUSTRALIAN PATENT NO. 225996/ RE-PRESS ONLY ON ORIGINAL CREASES". Middle label "KEITH COURTENAY PTY LTD/ VICTORIA/ 1975-1976/ ^/ NAME/ SERVICE No." Handwritten black ink "LENSING/ 15280" Lower Label - Dry cleaning instructions.