Hi Mike, what a small world it is and just amazing how we are bought together by the MLU and our love for the older military vehicles and a couple of photos of gunners on Pucka range the place when you could have your eyes filled with dust and your feet in 6 inches of mud at the same time.
It was devastating when the Batman Avenue Depot fell to make way for a toll way through Melbourne. Can still remember the Horse Artillery plaster cast badge on the drill hall wall as well as the stables being used to house the gun stores in. At the other end of the asphalt parade ground sat the Engineers and Water Transport units, both CMF.
Your father sounds like he was a life long gunner, I know how hard it is to rise to the standard of BSM and hold the position, it is a very elite club of knowledgeable NCO's the only club in the world that you rise to through hard competitive merit based selection. Still call the Battery Guide posting as the best ever. I had 24 years in Artillery and still get shivers when I hear the guns fire on Pucka Range from my home in Seymour. I could shoot off a few names of my early BSM's and BG's who had served in the lettered Battery's prior to the numbered ones but do not have their permission to publish them on the world stage.
Hope the faces and names in the pictures can be traced to their owners.
Cheers,
Dave.
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1 x 1955 Austin Champ WN1(restored)
2 x 1956 Austin Champ WN1(restored)
1 x 1955 Humber 4 x 4 GS (restored)
1 x 1945 FMC 1/4 Ton Trailer (restored)
1 x 1942 Bantam 1/4 Ton Trailer (restored)
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