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Australian soldier in the 1st Division Australian Artillery, wearing a slouch hat, and a 1916 tunic, and P03 equipment  
Australian WWI Army Uniform(s) Australian soldier in the 1st Division Australian Artillery, wearing a slouch hat, and a 1916 tunic, and Pattern '03 equipment.


An Artillery man, either a gunner or a driver. This is an Australian made tunic for a soldier in the 1st Australian Field Artillery.
He wears a slouch hat turned up on the left hand side, and secured by either a press-stud or a brass hook arrangement. On the turned up side of the hat there is a badge. This badge is the Australian Commonwealth Military Forces, general service badge, commonly known as the 'rising sun'. On his upper sleeves are the wool felt colour patches of a red and blue diagonally divided rectangle, red to the top. This is the divisional patch of the 1st Australian Artillery.
The equipment worn is the British pattern
1903 bandolier equipment
, although all leather pieces are Australian made.


Just visible on his lower right cuff are two gold strips. These are wound stripes, and each represents a wound received in combat.

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