Re: In the background
 

You'd be pretty much on the money there - the codes denote 253 squadron RAF.

Here's a potted history:



Source

In the background.......a Ford (?) "mobile office"....or field modified Signals truck??? Has anyone got an idea?

Pictures taken at the "Grote markt" in Bergen op Zoom, Holland. Source:www.markiezenhof.nl

Alex

How did you do it.....
 

Good evening Alex...

How did you attach 3 pictures to the same email...??

Did you resize the 3 pictures to be under the 102kb cut off...???

Trying to learn to speed up my picture postings....

Bob C.

Bob the new system will allow multiple photos as long as they are 700 wide and under 244mb each. When the first has finished uploading just hit browse again and add the next photo etc. :note:

Size
 

Cliff, you may mean 244kb.

Hi Bob, Just like Cliff mentioned, the new forum version has the ability to attach more than one picture to your post. Also the size has been increased, which does make it a lot easier to upload a picture. With the old forum I often had to reduce the quality of the picture a few times, to get it under 102kb. Now if only we could get the full size picture to show up in stead of a thumbnail.... :salute:

very correct Keith I did mean 244kb. Sorry about that folks. :fry:

Alex, thanks for finding these pictures!

It looks like one of many 3-tonners converted with a caravan body for use as a mobile office of some sorts. Most likely attached to a HQ unit.

Interestingly, the 3rd picture shows a Stuart VI Recce!

H.

Hi Hanno;

In answer to a question by Alex van de Wetering, in the 'Defrocked Priest in South Alberta Regt' thread in the Armour Forum, located here: http://www.mapleleafup.org/forums/showthread.php?t=4342,
I had replied that the vehicles in the photos from the 'Grote markt', Bergen op Zoom, belonged to those of RHQ and Recce Troop, of the 29th Canadian Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment (The South Alberta Regiment), C.A.C., of the 4th Canadian Armoured Division.

Cheers

Army Motorcycling
 

This is part of a screenshot taken from a training film based at a Driver Training school. The Gun Tractor is parked by the entrance to the depot.
http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/686/16hcmpsn8.th.jpg

Hi Mark, thanks! Interesting to see the Stuart VI Recce, that Priest Kangaroo is a great find too.

Hanno

Probably taken in North Africa?

Another shot in taken in North Africa. In case you noticed, the Germans riding the Daimler A/C are POW's.

IWM photo H19763 showing Churchill inspecting artillery on 16 May 1942 aboard a Covenanter tank, in the background CMP Quads

Quads
 

Looks like 6 of 'em. Lucky Winston!;)

Breakfast with a good helping of early CMPs!

"10Aug40 – Orillia – 0600hrs breakfast for the newly mobilized regiment". Credit: Courtesy Grant Tipler
Source: http://perthregiment.org/gallery/gallery.html

In the background
 

Hanno ... you missed one ... :D

An Aussie one
 

I visited an ex-79 Squadron chappie - here's a squadron portrait with something familiar in the background..

http://img.skitch.com/20080603-p82q1...mh2txgdnxa.jpg

Proto type
 

Hanno...That picture shows the first CMP proto type.. which ended up in a hippy community on Salt Spring Island ,BC the remains of which was rescued and is in the Canadian War Museum..or at least it was..
So the story goes..
It is the third from the left in the photo..The long nose conventional cab was not in keeping with the ability to knock down and reassembly and ship in tight quarters in war time conditions ..
:drunk::remember :support

In the background ...
 

... 64 years ago on Juno ... a 15cwt

Yes Mark,

certainly a noteworthy day, today. Any idea where the picture was taken? My guess would be Bernieres-sur-Mer. Anyone know for sure? I will be in Normandy next week.:remember

Alex

:remember :salute:

Hi Alex;

Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer (NAN RED Beach - The North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment & "C" Sqn, 10 CAR (FGH)). Two of the three DD tanks of "C" Sqn, 10 CAR (FGH) that were lost to enemy fire on the beach can be seen in the photo along with AVREs of 80th Assault Squadron, R.E., along with other various vehicles.

Cheers

As an aside to the last photo - anyone know what is below the 15Cwt and to the right of the BARV ???
Noel

Noel, are you talking about this little thingy next to the Jeep? Looks like a boiler of some kind. Derek.

Looks like a Sherman DD below,and to the far right a portable laundry or cook stove of some type..

Sapper - yes that's it, I had thought it looked like a tar boiler - but why would it be there???
Noel

You might have hit the nail on the head Noel with the tar boiler. Advance parties of the Royal Engineer's five Airfield Construction Groups landed at the British and Canadian beaches on D Day with the bulk of their plant arriving D+ 2 or 3. Getting airstrips quickly operational was a huge concern of SHAEF in order to provide close air cover over the invasion beaches. 16 Airfield Construction Group had the first Emergency Landing Strip operational June 7th. PBS (Prefabricated Bituminous Surfaces) was commonly used for runway surfaces with repairs quickly made with a mop, a bucket of molten tar, and some burlap or Hessian.


CHIMO! Derek.

Thanks Mark. I hope we have the time to take a comparison shot, in a few days.

Alex

notice the chev prototype in the backround?????