6 Division volunteers leaves Wewak for BCOF in Japan

Members of 6th Australian Division who volunteered for service with the BCOF, Japan, left Wewak on 26 October 1945, in the troopship MV Manoora. Shows two soldiers carrying placard "Tokyo here we come". Soldiers waiting to embark. NX192678 Private Lintern Charles Cozens studies an English dictionary. Troops alight from a truck at the embarkation point. QX28624 Staff Sergeant Louis Frederick Thiemann drinks from a mug. Troops resting on a Japanese tank. Troops embarking on landing barges on the beach. Troops looking over the side of the landing barge as the shoreline recedes in the background. Barge approaching and then moving along the starboard side of MV Manoora. Troops transfer from barge to troopship. Soldier sits on his pack waiting his turn to transfer. View from MV Manoora to shore, another barge loaded with troops arrives alongside. MV Manoora lying in Wewak harbour.