An unidentified Australian Lieutenant Colonel (LT Col) with the Royal Australian Army Ordnance ...

Accession Number HOBJ0551
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Hobson, Phillip Oliver
Place made Japan
Date made c February 1950
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

An unidentified Australian Lieutenant Colonel (LT Col) with the Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps (RAAOC) and a group of unidentified women, selects dessert from a table. Officers and their wives and friends are enjoying a dinner at a mess or club. Note the Japanese chef in his white hat (right), and a Japanese woman in a traditional kimino (front), attending to the dessert table.