Place | Asia: Japan, Hiroshima, Hiroshima |
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Accession Number | P01795.001 |
Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white |
Physical description | Black & white |
Place made | Japan: Kaitachi |
Date made | 1948 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
Informal group portrait of four members of the Salvage Unit of the Australian component of the ...
Description
Informal group portrait of four members of the Salvage Unit of the Australian component of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF). Left to right: back row: Ned Egglestone, an Aboriginal serviceman; "Tiny" Taylor, who later won an MC in Korea. Front row: Jim Coxhead; "Snowy" Dickson. The soldiers are brandishing bundles of banknotes with which they have just been paid. (Donor N. Egglestone)