![]() ![]() Second row, seate, left to right: 58014 (WX11032) Major (Maj) Herbert Henry Victor (Vic) Barrett 240057 Captain (Capt) Edward Ernest (Teddy) Haines 18013 (QX877) Capt Robin Muirhead BEM 58007 (WX31375) Capt Maitland Henry Chipper VX112099 (V19787) Maj John William Archer 240052 (NX27697) Maj Alec Herbert Thistleton Maj F W Willis (possibly 271 (NX14084) Francis Leslie Willis) Lieutenant Colonel J B Smith, Commanding Officer BOD Capt William (Bill) Cole NX110620 (N27671) Maj Francis John Whipple 2250 (NX37395) Eric Huntley Spence 337631 (VX138613) Capt Hugh Miles Pickering 337619 Capt Kenneth (Ken) Patterson Capt John Thompson V325447 Lieutenant (Lt) Bert Stanley Schmidt and Lt John Morris. Most of the officers returned to Australia in February 1952. It is probably just prior to the closing down of the BOD and the handover to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC), 4 Commonwealth Ordnance Depot, in January 1952. This is no longer a requirement, however both Rwanda and Mozambique have joined relatively recently. Group portrait of members of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) Base Ordnance Depot (BOD) outside a base building. What is the Commonwealth The Commonwealth of Nations, also known as the Commonwealth, is a voluntary grouping of 54 countries, nearly all of which were formerly part of the British Empire.
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