Officers khaki cotton drill service dress jacket : Captain R T Ramsay, 3 Australian Divisional Train, AIF

Officer's unlined khaki cotton drill service dress tunic with pointed cuffs, pleated breast pockets with triple pointed flaps and large expanding patch pockets below the front waist, with plain flaps, and sleeves with pointed cuffs. The breast pockets have had press studs sewn to each corner of the flaps and on the pocket to give a neater line to the uniform. A brass belt hook is fitted to both sides of the waist. All of the buttons are embossed with 'AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH' and the King's crown and cypher. The buttons down the front of the tunic have the cypher of King Edward VII, except for the third button, which has the cypher of King George V. All the other buttons on the tunic have the cypher of King Edward VII. The button on the left shoulder strap is missing; the rank insignia is also missing, except for one bent crown on the right shoulder strap. The straps have small holes where the rank insignia for a captain (three pips) would have been attached. The collar bears brass Rising Sun badges. There is a small inset pocket in the right hand side of the waistband. A small patch pocket with a tab to hold a pocket watch and chain is sewn inside the left front. The head of each sleeve bears miniature colour patches for 3 Division Australian Army Service Corps (AASC) above a full sized colour patch for 2 Cavalry Division AASC, which has a brass 'A' in its centre, indicating that the wearer served at Anzac. There are five blue woven service chevrons on the lower right sleeve. A red woven tag sewn inside the back neck reads 'Commonwealth Government CLOTHING FACTORY'.

Associated with the service of Rupert Thompson Ramsay, a professional soldier, who was born at Sunbury, Victoria on 1 November 1888. Before the First World War he served as a volunteer for three years with the Victorian Scottish Regiment, one year with the Victorian Rangers and two years with the Corps of Australian Signallers. He later became a permanent member of the Citizen Military Forces (CMF) and was a Staff Sergeant Major with the Instructional Staff before he was seconded into the Australian Imperial Force on the outbreak of war, enlisting on 26 September 1914. Ramsay embarked from Melbourne with the Headquarters of 8 Light Horse Regiment, as Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant, from Melbourne on 25 February 1915, aboard HMAT Star of Victoria. On 16 May 1915 he arrived at Gallipoli, where he served for six weeks before being evacuated to Alexandria on 19 June 1915 suffering from a hernia. He embarked for Australia from Egypt on HMT Honoralo 29 July 1915 and was discharged as medically unfit from the AIF on 2 October. His hernia was later successfully surgically and, passed fit, Ramsay applied for a commission and re-enlisted into the AIF on 23 February 1916. He re-embarked from Melbourne 3 June 1916 as a lieutenant with 3 Divisional Train Australian Army Service Corps (AASC) on board HMAT Persic, arriving at Plymouth, England on 25 July. Ramsay served on the Western Front. In July 1917 he was promoted to captain. After the war he worked in the Demobilisation Department at AIF Headquarters in London. Between July and October 1919 he was granted leave for non military employment and training, and worked at Buckingham Gate Motor Works, London. He served again in the Demobilisation Department from October 1919 until his he return to Australia aboard the Bahia Castillo in April 1920. After the war Ramsay returned to the CMF, eventually being promoted to major. This tunic was worn again by Ramsay during his post-war service with the CMF. It includes the miniature colour patches of his wartime unit, 3 Divisional Train AASC ,and also those of 2 Cavalry Division AASC, in which he served in Australia after 1921. The 2 Cavalry Division AASC patch on the uniform was used between 1921 and 1942.

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