Major General Bert M. Hoffmeister, Studio Portrait,1945. He is wearing a Seaforth glengarry, tartan trews, khaki service dress tunic with the 6th Canadian (Pacific Force) shoulder patch. After VE-Day, Hoffmeister was made General Officer Commanding the 6th Canadian Division (Canadian Army Pacific Force) which disbanded after the atomic bombings of Japan. Hoffmeister retired from active service in September 1945. That same year, he was made a Grand Officer in the Order of Orange Nassau with swords as well as a Companion of the Order of the Bath and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. In 1947, he was made a Commander of the [American] Legion of Merit.