Informal portrait of VX150779 Captain (Capt) John Patrick (Jack) McMullan, of the British ...

Informal portrait of VX150779 Captain (Capt) John Patrick (Jack) McMullan, of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) Labor Unit in Japan, and his wife Cecilia Mary in the garden outside Z31, their house in the BCOF dependant housing area. A sign on a post near the entry to the house reads ‘CAPT J P McMULLAN’.This image is part of a collection of photographs taken in Japan between 1947 and 1952, relating to the service of Capt McMullan, of the BCOF Labour Unit in Japan. Capt McMullan’s wife Cecilia (also known as Celia and Celie), and son Brian John, lived with him in Japan as BCOF dependants. Cecilia and Brian were the photographers for most of the photographs in the collection. Brian was nine years old when he arrived in Japan in 1947. The presence of families of servicemen of all ranks was a distinctive aspect of BCOF.