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I was in the Sherbrooke Hussars about the same time as your Jeep was in service with the "other regiment" in Sherbrooke. I have no pictures of their vehicles, but can put questions of markings, paint and other such things into perspective.

The proper paint is three-colour drab paint. At some point my unit was ordered to change from semi-gloss dark green to the paint scheme as shown in the diagrams in the camouflage and concealment CFP. So, we wheedled some extra man-days pay and armed ourselves with chalk, gallon cans of paint and the book. The Sergeant or Master Corporal in charge chalked on the lines, and we lowly Troopers and Corporals brush painted in between. The hard edges on our Jeeps were perfectly legitimate. After a while any vehicles that came back to the unit following body work at 55 Service Battalion in St-Hubert, had spray painted camouflage with soft edges.

The markings were applied with equal authority. Someone read the map marking symbol pub, or referred to his last course notes. Squares, crossed bandoliers, bars and letters as required. They may have been done freehand with a small brush or spray painted with a stencil. I don't quite remember. BUT ... we kept cycling through our vehicles and there was no point in putting troop or squadron markings since they never went back to the same driver or troop. Twp license plates and the CFR repeated in sticky decals on the windshield frame would be the most permanent markings. Some vehicles would have had the big Mobile Command arrows sticker and a Canadian flag sticker, but those things were stolen too easily from Transport and applied to aluminum folding clipboards ....

That was the recce unit. The infantry took a slightly less "consumer" view of their vehicles. They never had many in the first place, so damaging or wrecking them was punished harder. I suppose their markings would have been the same. The Brigade structure of today is a new imposition. We were lumped into anonymous districts as I recall. The correct abbreviation for les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke is FUS DE SHER.