148355 Accession Number: 148355

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Kure to Hiroshima Road, Japan. 1953-02-53. Major E. C. Dunn, Officer Commanding British Commonwealth Amenities Unit, addressing lodge members of the Buffalo Lodge No. 30 British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) during the unveiling of the monument to Captain J. F. Smith, Royal Australian Army Service Corps, killed when a BCOF bus carrying lodge members ran off the road into the sea on its return trip from a lodge meeting at Iwakuni on 1949-06-25. Left to right: NX43387 Sergeant (Sgt) R. A. Maurer; Major E. C. Dunn; Brigadier I. R.Campbell; 3/807 WO1 A. L. Pedder; 1/902 S/Sgt N. L. Bowman; 1/331 S/Sgt C. J. Summers; 2/1021 Sgt W. E. Breen; unknown. Then members of the RAAF lodge.

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Accession Number
148355
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
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Whole
Item Count
1
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Copyright expired - public domain

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