Button, Australia, NSW Military Forces, universal pattern button, 1899-1902.

The first military forces raised in the colony of New South Wales were formed in June 1801, when "loyal associations" formed mainly from free settlers, were established in Sydney and Parramatta in response to concerns about a possible uprising by Irish convicts.

Upon Federation, all of the Australian colonial forces came under the control of the Federal Government of Australia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_forces_of_Australia

NSW Military Forces

New South Wales, Australia

William Chorley was born in Wiveliscombe, Somerset, in 1860. A tailor by trade, working in Cheltenham, he and his family migrated to Sydney in 1883. 

He bought out the tailor he worked for in Sydney a few months after his arrival creating the firm 'W. Chorley and Co. Tailor and Robe Maker’ in George Street, Sydney. The company soon had Vice-Regal patronage and when it closed after nearly one hundred years of business in 1980, it boasted it had tailored by appointment to every New South Wales Governor since 1883 and every Governor-General since Federation. The firm specialised in formal court dress and service uniforms.

http://collections.anmm.gov.au/people/4718

W Chorley and Co

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

H7469-7 Uniform button, universal patten, metal, issued by NSW Military Forces, New South Wales, Australia, made by W Chorley and Co, Syndey, New South Wales, Australia 1899-1902

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Uniform button issued by NSW Military Forces

Object No. H7469-7

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