Winifred Jackson & Other Women in occupied Japan with the British Commonwealth Occupation Forces

Interesting photographs of Winifred Jackson (I think from Kent) and other British women in post-war occupied Japan with the British Commonwealth Occupation Forces (BCOF). BCOF supported the American government in Japan and included British, Indian, Australian and New Zealand personnel between 1946 and 1952. Despite the dominance of the Americans (in reality and certainly culturally) the BCOF was about 25% of the post-war occupation foreign forces presence. They were involved in demilitarisation and the destruction of surplus war materiel. BCOF HQ was at Kure Port near Hiroshima…