Four Australian soldiers serving with BCOF stand at attention at the saluting base during a parade for the monthly changing of the guard in the Imperial Plaza. In the background, a large crowd of Japanese civilian spectators, some with bicycles, looks on. The soldier at left, wearing a beret, is 3/110 Major Cecil Ives, Officer Commanding (OC) 1 Armoured Car Squadron, while the other three are members of the 67th Infantry Battalion. The soldier third from left is VX14475 Warrant Officer 1 H. ('Jack') Hardwood, the battalion's Regimental Sergeant Major (RSM). - Tokyo, Japan, February 1948.

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VX45138 LT W. L. Fisher, Adjutant OF 1st Armoured Car Squadron, greeting LT-GEN H. C. H. Roberston CBE, DSO, Commander-in-Chief BCOF AND Brigadier R. N. L. Hopkins OBE, Commander 34TH Australian Infantry Brigade BCOF - Hiro, Japan. 22nd August, 1946.

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Members of the 1st Australian Armoured Car Squadron relax on board a command craft off the east coast of the Island during Operation Fish which was planned to check and arrest black marketeers in fish and also to inspect cargoes for any type of black market evidence. Shown: VX503888 Trooper (Tpr) J. N. Straughen; VX125325 Tpr R. A. Kean; VX504028 Tpr R. S. Howell, and NX501474 Tpr C. F. Dupty -  Shikoku, Japan. 12th December, 1947.

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