Sure does Rob, and it also says a lot about assumptions and guess-work as opposed to doing some real research:
"their log books went to Archives and thence to the AWM"
.... is just wrong: all but one of the log books currently listed on the Archives Recordsearch as available at the AWM went from Army at Bandiana direct to the Military Heraldry and Technology (MHT) Section of the AWM way back in 1989/1990, and were transferred in two batches to the Research Centre between 2008 and 2014.
The one other was the log book for 169056, which, several months after the tank was transferred to the AWM in 2008 or 2009 (cannot remember when the tank was actually recd), was located by Defence and transferred, initially to the AWM's MHT section, and from there to the Research Centre.
As I have mentioned previously, there are a number of comments throughout the blog that are simply incorrect.
Mike
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