carrier records
Hi
The probability of determining the service of your carrier is challenging. The key starting point is the vehicle registration books held by the Australian War Memorial under the series AWM127. Problem is that this record does not journal the issue of vehicles to specific units and their subsequent service. It should, however, identify if the vehicle was sent overseas and the date this occurred.
The only way to determine actual unit usage is to methodically go through all the war diaries of units that may have had carriers on charge. This is no small feat in itself.
A further problem is that most war diaries do not identify vehicles by registration number, especially the infantry units. The quality and quantity of information on vehicles varies both between war diaries and over time. By over time I refer to changes in the actual person who compiled the diary and the level of detail they were prepared to include.
cheers
Shane Lovell
Canberra, Australia
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