“B.C.O.F. troops drawn up on the wharf before boarding the troopship “Manoora” for Japan. They were mostly new recruits, but here and there were men wearing the ribbons of famous A.I.F. campaigns. ”
News clipping courtesy of Merv Kay.
While serving in the BCOF in Kure, Japan, Merv Kay sent this postcode home to his mom in Payne Road, The Gap, Christmas 1946.