Art.
It looks as if I got it wrong. My wife's uncle would never talk about the war, but you're right he did say he was in the 59th Anti-Tank Regiment RA in 43rd Wessex Division. He wouldn't even let me take him to Vernon to see where the 43rd Division forced the crossing of the Seine. He let me drive him in my 1944 Jeep here in Canada, and I think I drove him in the Windsor Carrier that I owned in Britain but sold when the company wouldn't pay to bring it out to Canada. I have seen pictures of Windsor Carriers towing 17-pdrs and assumed that he would have been in an earlier version of such a towing vehicle.
So thanks for that. I shall now picture him in an artillery quad. They were just as exposed to mortar bombs, I take it.
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