V. Finimore, Tailor

David Victor Finimore, known as Victor, was only 20 years of age when he started his own tailoring establishment in Brisbane Street, opposite West Street, and next to Loynes Furniture Mart. Although young, Victor had a deal of tailoring experience already having worked for Parker & Geertz, in Cribb & Foote's tailoring department and at  T. T. Barry (a tailor) before starting on his own in April 1912. He wished to be known as a "high class cash tailor". 

Soon after opening, the firm won a tender to supply staff uniforms for the Ipswich Ambulance Brigade.

Within a couple of years, World War I commenced in Europe and young Australian men enlisted enthusiastically to join the war effort. In August 1916, just over two years after becoming a business owner, Victor also signed up and went to war. Unfortunately he did not return to tailoring in Ipswich but died of wounds received in March 1918. His name is recorded on the Honour Rolls at Central Congregational Church and the United Welsh Church at Blackstone.