Black shirt of the South Vietnamese Revolutionary Development Cadre: Warrant Officer Class II L D Osborn MM, Australian Army Training Team Vietnam

Long sleeved collarless shirt made of black cotton. The sleeves have a patch sewn over each elbow as reinforcement. The shirt is fastened down the front by black plastic buttons and there are four patch pockets, two on the breast, two below the waistline. An off white strip is sewn above the left breast pocket with the word 'OSBORN' printed in black. A blue circular patch is sewn onto the right breast pocket. This badge shows a picture of Vietnam in yellow surrounded by a wreath and the words 'TO QUOC NHAN DAN' (Country/People).

A black pyjama style uniform worn by the American funded Revolutionary Development Cadre (RDC) and adopted by their advisor trainers. This particular example was worn by 52506 Warrant Officer Class Two (WO2) Leslie Daniel 'Aussie' Osborn MM, of West Australia, a member of the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) during his service with the RDC from 21 October 1969 until 8 July 1971. Osborn is pictured wearing this uniform in AWM photograph COM/69/0570/VN while serving with the RDC in Phuoc Tuy Province.

Osborn had previously served in WWII and the Malayan Emergency and served in five tours of Vietnam from 1964 until 1971. He had won a Military Medal when he saved the life of American officer Captain Paul Chalmers after their unit was ambushed in Thua Thien Province, Vietnam on May 29 1965.