British Commonwealth Occupation of Japan. New Zealand. J Force

Multiple copies of many of the official photographs; all contain captions.

Images include: NZ Concert Party outside a theatre (Henry Rudolph, Sylvia Devenie, Joyce Izett, Margaret Richmond, Zita Outtrim, and Will Yates); fire at Kobe Steel Co works which damaged YMCA Bulk Store and other buildings at Brigade Headquarters; Brigadier L Potter; boats which brought illegal Korean immigrants to Shimonoseki; Cpl J A Jamieson, Sgt D Dalgleish & Pte J N Clarke examining a craft; Sgt S Ryan and Cpl J A Jamieson questioning the captain; first draft of homeward bound J-Force packing up (Pte A R Wallis, Pte Ron Laird, Cpl Jack Baird).

2NZEF band handing in their instruments prior to leaving Japan in 1945 (Pte Horrie Evans, Pte A R Wallis, Pte D Neilson, Pte M J Hamilton, R N Thorstensen, S/Sgt P E Copsey, 2 Lieut H H Router, A K Thompson, Cpl J Baird, Pte C P Fraser); band members H H Router & RC Gentry; l/Cpl R L Wooding & Pte S E Milnes packing up; Pte B T Sloan, Pte K E J Ward & Pte J A McConachie in A.E.S. library at 22 NZ Battalion; indoor basketball at Iwakuni Aerodrome; gift shop at Brigade Headquarters; farewell party in Headquarters Officer's Mess in honour of Major I R Diggle (2/Lieut C A Baynes, Capt P W F Joplin, Brig S G Crump, Lt Col G McCaskill, 2 Lieut L A Gatfield); at same party Capt J L Lawson, 2 Lieut W von Keisenberg, Major C O Neilson, Major B A Andrews, Capt W A Simpson, and 2 Lieut K L Sole; 2NZEF officers relaxing in the mess (Capt N L G Baker, Lt Col G M McCaskill, Major H W Barnett, Major T J W Mallasch, Major Diggle, Major B A Andrews, 2 Lt Gatfield and Capt I F Brown); group photo of men who will control Jayforce during 1947-48 - Major J A Dunn, Capt W A Simpson, Capt I J Hellyer, Major E C Mathews, Capt F R Bartley, Lt-Col J A Worsnop, Brig Crump, Lt-Col McCaskill, Major R C Hollis, Capt B G Chadwick, Capt P W F Joplin, Major R H Kerr, Major B A Andrews, and Major Diggle.

M R Clarke, Pte E Donaldson & Pte R O'Reilly at gift shop in YMCA Recreation Centre, Chofu; Trooper H P Waitoa and Cpl H J Watson at YMCA Recreation Centre; Cpl J E Thomson and Driver C A Beaston playing billiards at Recreation Centre; L/Cpl W A Dell and Pte D L Price on leave in Chofu; Pte K D McFarlane sending a message by teleprinter; Japanese children playing in a Chofu street; Japanese mother and her two children; Chofu street scenes; officers and men of 22nd NZ Battalion at Ozuki; broadcaster and music library, AKAA radio station, Yamaguchi; Pte R Irvine & Pte J L Hartsone in record library; Cpl C C Buck in control room, Station AKAA (NZ radio station in Japan); Sgt L V Brown reading the NZ daily digest at AKAA; L H Martin (AKAA Station Manager) recording a description of planting rice (in a paddy field); L H Martin interviewing two English women (W.V.S); R G Grant, Pte M S Garrity & Sgt A Atkinson taking part in a display of infantry weapons at Ozuki airfield; Pte E A Olson using a Bren gun at Ozuki display; Cpl J R Thompson & W/OII Crisp with mortar at Ozuki display; Sgt C F Richardson & Sgt A A Atkinson with anti tank weapon; Wasp or Bren carrier with a flame thrower mounted on it being demonstrated by Lt S R McKeon; Mt Fuji taken from window of an aircraft; Corsairs of the 14th Fighter Squadron, RNZAF releasing rockets over the target during a fire-power demonstration over Onasamishima Island; Aircraftman Smaller, a member of the ground staff of 14th Fighter squadron RNZAF working on a Corsair aircraft at Iwakuni; cooking course at the kitchen of the 19th NZASC Company in Chofu; Sgt J C Brain & P M Lyons reading the sign in English at Iminomiya Shrine, Chofu; scenes from trial of Japanese wartime cabinet held at International Military Tribunal for Far East, Tokyo (includes Brig R H Quilliam, NZ Prosecutor, defendants and war judges); men under instruction at metal turning lathe at A.E.S Centre, 22 NZ Battalion (Pte M K Hunt, Cpl P N Kilpatrick, Pte C W Purcel, and instructor Lt R Chapman-Taylor).

Group photo of members of YMCA staff attached to J-Force on occasion of a visit of NZ national secretary, R M Brasted (all named on back); Remembrance Day Parade held at Chofu, Oct 1947; Japanese women road workers; patients at 6th NZ General Hospital (Cpl A D Mackay, Pte W Aranga, Pte E J Thorburn); patients at 4th NZ Rest Home, Yamaguchi (Cpl Mackay, Pte Aranag, Pte Thorburn, Cpl Hori, Pte N E Freemantle, and Pte A H B Tullock); gift shop at Chofu; nurses of 6th NZ General Hospital, Kiwa (J A Horsley, P L Smith, B G Montgomery, A E Johnson, G Seymour, C J H Dean, J R Scott & Charge Sister E Hartnett); construction of new camp at Ozuki; members of 22nd Battalion taking Japanese children for a day out on their launch (includes Lt L G Dutton); formal dinner to welcome Brig S H Crump; Japanese gathering seaweed at Shimonoseki; group photo of Headquarters staff; visit of Lt-Gen H C H Robertson (Commander-in-Chief of BCOF) to the 6th NZ General Hospital (welcomed by Matron C McDonald); Lt-Gen Robertson talking with Matron, Sister J C Aitken and Sister B G Montgomery; meeting of Japanese contractors and NZ personnel involved in rebuilding 6NZGH (Lt R F Wilson, Capt J G Goodwin, Capt J A Hanam, Major Robertson, Col T H Pettit, Lt R F Wilson, and Major E A Flynn); Japanese women in a paddy field; Chofu street scenes; cricket match at Bofu; church service at Chofu conducted by Senior Chaplain Lt-Col H G Taylor; Hakata railway station and consignment of army rations on way to American troops (includes boxes of NZ butter); Major A F G McGregor (2/IC of 22nd NZ Battalion); American forces band playing `live' at American radio station at Kokura; Australian bomb disposal squad workers; men sunbathing at Yoshimi beach near Chofu.

Quantity: 490 b&w original photographic print(s).