From an album belonging to Lieutenant-Commander Sakaguchi Shigetaro (阪口繁太郎) (Warrant Officer at the time)
Guarding of Hankow Commemoration 1930 - 2nd Company - Photographed at the Shanghai Naval Landing Force Barracks
In July of 1930 Communist Forces occupied Changsha, burning down the Japanese Consulate, and moving towards Hankow. The Shanghai Naval Landing Force dispatched its 2nd Company to Hankow in response.