Informal group portrait of four members of the Salvage Unit of the Australian component of the ...

Place Asia: Japan, Hiroshima, Hiroshima
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

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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)