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Military burial Lieutenant Colonel Harvey Gale
Film
Maker: O'Halloran, John Frederick M
While out on a shooting expedition on the morning of 29 February 1948, NX201 Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) Harvey Ennis Gale, Area Commander at HQ BCOF, Eta Jima, was accidentally killed. The coffin was...F07481
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Minor war crimes trials
Film
Maker: Cartledge, Ronald Selby
General scenes at the minor War Crimes Courts, Yokohama, where thirteen Japanese received sentences ranging from death to 40 years imprisonment for crimes committed against Australian and Dutch POW. A...F07466
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Nelson, Eric (Sergeant, b.1899 - d.2003)
Private Record
Maker: Nelson, Eric Various
Collection relating to the Second World War and British Commonwealth Occupation Force service of VX39409 Sergeant Eric Nelson, Australian Army Pay Corps, Malaya and Japan, 1941-1948. Collection consis...AWM2016.53.1
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Official raising BCOF flags
Film
Maker: Cartledge, Ronald Selby
On 12 April 1946, the flags of the British Commonwealth of Nations were flown together for the first time in occupied Japan. The Commander-in-Chief BCOF, Lieutenant General J Northcott, inspected a gu...F07454
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Off parade
Film
Maker: Audio Films
Filmed by Military History Section, edited & produced by Audio Films Melbourne. BCOF Rest Camp - Lakeside Hotel, Lake Chugushi (Nikko).F10006
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OKUNOSHIMA, JAPAN. 1946-08-30. JAPANESE WORKMEN AT DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING EQUIPMENT, BCOF, ...
Photograph
Maker: Queale, Alan
OKUNOSHIMA, JAPAN. 1946-08-30. JAPANESE WORKMEN AT DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING EQUIPMENT, BCOF, BUILDING A FURNACE. IN THIS WILL BE DESTROYED BY BURNING THE CONTAMINATED DUST, THE SLUDGE FROM THE GAS TANK...131772
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Opening of Bladin's Mino Point holiday camp
Film
Maker: Cuthbert, Allan George
Bladin's Mino Point holiday camp is named after the ex-Chief of Staff, O33 Air Vice Marshal Francis Masson Bladin who has just returned to Australia. The camp was officially opened by the Commander-in...F07497
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Pattern of hills, Eta Jima
Art
Maker: Rowed, Reg
Headquarters of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) on the island of Eta Jima, Japan. In the background are terraced hills.ART26716
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Photographic plates, atomic blast Hiroshima
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Small photographic plates which have been fused together.RELAWM34353
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Piece of electric lightbulb, atomic blast Hiroshima: Elsie May Rayner
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Piece of an electric lightbulb. The glass and wire component has melted and fused together. The metal base has remained mostly intact.REL/21011.007
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Piece of melted glass, atomic blast Hiroshima: Elsie May Rayner
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
A piece of green glass which has been melted and distorted by the atomic blast.REL/21011.006
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Porcelain sake cup, atomic blast Hiroshima: Sister Gwenneth Ayre, AANS
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Small white porcelain Sake cup with blue Japanese characters. The bottom has green glass fused to it.REL28996
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Portrait of the artist Albert Tucker
Art
Maker: Santa, Yasushi
Portrait of the Australian artist Albert Tucker. Tucker was an accredited war correspondent to the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan.ART28470
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[RAAF Iwakuni 1948 & Korea 1950]
Film
Maker: Unknown
The film includes a street parade comprised of local population and military service personnel; the Australian base; scenes at the airfield; crew loading ammunition;crew unloading and carrying air car...F03391
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Reflections on training and leadership: an interview with Lieutenant-Colonel Ben O'Dowd (In retrospect)
Film
Maker: Australian War Memorial Training Technology Centre Australian Army
This oral history focuses on the training Lieutenant Colonel O'Dowd underwent when he enlisted in 1939 and examines aspects of training during his career. The subjects of the battlefield stress and le...F04842
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Review by Lieutenant General Robertson at Tokyo
Film
Maker: Military History Section, BCOF
General coverage of parade of 65 Australian Infantry Battalion on 20 September 1946, at the Imperial Palace Plaza, Tokyo. 34 (VX20321, VX80578) Lieutenant General Horace Clement Hugh Robertson is gree...F07485
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Rifle shoot for representative from BCOF for King's cup
Film
Maker: O'Halloran, John Frederick M
At Matsuyma on the Island of Shikoku, a rifle shoot was held in which officers and men of BCOF participated. The shoot was to select a representative from BCOF to take part in the King's Cup contest h...F07490
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Robertson, Sir Horace Clement Hugh 'Red Robbie' (Lieutenant General, b.1894 - d.1960)
Private Record
Maker: Robertson, Horace Clement Hugh
Collection relating to the Second World War service and post-war career of VX20321 Lieutenant General Sir Horace Robertson, KBE, CBE, DSO, British Commonwealth Occupation Force (formerly 10 Light Hors...PR87/167
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Rugby Union Duntroon Cup match, 1948
Film
Maker: Military History Section, BCOF
On 9 May 1948, a team selected from various units of the Australian Occupation Force in Japan played a team drawn from the 2 New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF). The Commander in Chief BCOF, 34 (VX...F07460
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Salvage of wrecked and old Japanese war ships
Film
Maker: Military History Section, BCOF
In Japan the bomb damaged dry docks were repaired and pumped dry and work started on the salvage of Japanese warships. The reclaimed metal going to industry for more peaceful articles than warships.F07498