Servicemen visit an Australian section of the British Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery, Yokohama. ...

Servicemen visit an Australian section of the British Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery, Yokohama. The cemetery includes graves of Australian servicemen who died as prisoners of war (POWs) of the Japanese, in the Second World War. Identified crosses are those of: NX57723 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) Leo Stanley Thomas Cleary, died of illness in Japan, 5 November 1943 (front row, right); NX45213 Private William George Hale, died of illness in Japan, 4 December 1943 (second row, third from right); Third Officer Geoffrey Spinner Hall, SS Nankin (Greenock), Australian Merchant Navy, died 19 January 1943 (second row, second from right); and NX25741 L Cpl Ian Grant Hann, died of illness in Japan, 18 February 1945 (second row, far right). This image is part of a collection of photographs taken in Japan between 1947 and 1952, relating to the service of VX150779 Captain (Capt) John Patrick (Jack) 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.