Group portrait of visiting members of the United Nations Mission. The mission inspected Japanese ...

Place Asia: Japan, Hiroshima, Hiroshima
Accession Number 100992
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film original acetate
Maker Freeman, William Harry
Place made Japan: Kure
Date made 10 September 1946
Conflict British Commonwealth Occupation Force, 1946-1952 (Japan)
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Group portrait of visiting members of the United Nations Mission. The mission inspected Japanese installations and bomb damage in the Kure and Hiroshima areas. Left to right: Back row: Captain J. D. Singh, Indian Army, Aide-de-Camp to Commander-in-Chief, BCOF; Mr Boyce, US; Mr Raben, US; Major Shaw, US Army; VX62718 Lieutenant Colonel O. W. Rennick, Australian Military Forces, HQ BCOF; Colonel Yuan, China; VX195 Brigadier C. A. Gaeyton, DME, AHQ, Australian Military Forces; Mr Moss, UK; VX13929 Colonel J. C. Bendall, Australian Military Forces, Deputy Director of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, HQ BCOF; Mr Cotard, France; Colonel T. S. Taylor MC, British Army, HQ BCOF; Brigadier C. Scales MC, British Army, Deputy Director of Medical Services, HQ BCOF; TX6125 Major M. G. Cleaver, Australian Military Forces, PA to Commander-in-Chief BCOF; Mr Chen, China; Lieutenant-Colonel J. Botham, British Army, HQ BCOF; Mr Glinkin, Russia; 406057 Flight Lieutenant R. B. Nash, RAAF PA to Chief of Staff BCOF; Wing Commander M. Kellett DFC, RAF, HQ BCOF; Major Kushifin, Russia; TX2022 Colonel J. M. McGowan, Australian Military Forces, CE HQ BCOF; Commodore Barnham, RN; Captain Nelson, US Army; Colonel C. G. Reynolds, British Army, Deputy Director of Ordnance Service HQ BCOF; colonel C. M. O. Sawers, British Army HQ BCOF; Captain Bohannon, US Army; Lieutenant Lee, US Army. Front row: Lieutenant Colonel Malczewski, US Army; Colonel Pang, Chinese Army; Colonel Vallier, France; Commodore Brower, RN; Air Vice Marshal F. M. Bladin CBE, RAAF Chief of Staff, BCOF; Major General Dai Chin Lee, China; VX20321 Lieutenant General H. C. H. Robertson CBE DSO, Australian Military Forces, Commander-in-Chief BCOF; Colonel Polyashenko, Russia; Brigadier Cartright, British Army; Colonel Snyder, US Army; Brigadier G. H. Clifton DSO MC, British Army, Brigadier, General Staff, BCOF; Commodore Yashin, Russian Navy.