No, ownership cannot go any further than the parent unit. The information only lists the parent unit (ie Moose Jaw) and not the lodger units which woudl include just about any militia unit in Saskatchewan. That is where paint removal will become important.
As well, some of the modifications like GPMG mounting may give an indicator as to which unit had it.
As to the grill, when we would go to the manual, it gave us an NSN for a grill. Unless you found the Cdn2/Cdn3 stock number in the parts manual supplements, you ended up with the 1953 parts.
When I was in, we ordered the welting for the top of the grill. Supply was out of it, so they sent us the next higher assembly, which was a complete grill (hinged).
I often saw data plates swapped out after it's military life. Often it was to circumvent export rules to the US. A Cdn 2 was old enough to head south, but a Cdn 3 could not.As well, Shilo was a base that, with little else to do in the 80s, got tasked with rebuilding (often by mix and match) written off Jeeps to extend the life of the fleet. Our example in the museum does not have matching numbers, nor did one I bought locally a couple years ago.
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