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Originally posted by Darren Witty
I has just spent hours looking through journals trying to locate information on my carrier. I have attached a photo of that page and you can go down the second last column and see 1105 which is my vehicle. The coloum to the left is the original engine number. I went through the engine numbers and found my engine number and which carrier that was originally fitted to. The next two columns are the type and model of vehicle. LP2a Carrier. The next is the ARN, mine being T16990.
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Darren, T16690 is not the ARN, but the AIF no. The plate on the carrier would have been written AIF T-16690.
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Originally posted by Darren Witty
The next three columns will tell you about OS service. My vehicle doesn't seem to have any but you can see the one above went to the Middle East ME on the 8/1/1942. On the opposite page there are some notes on each vehicle. The next attached photo shows those notes on the opposite page. The top line refers to my vehicle i.e allotted to the AMF with ARN C26698 on the 30/12/1941 with the order number next. Some have information about disposal dates most carriers being around 1958. That is it! Nothing more.
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By cross referencing to the later book with the AMF C-xxxxx no.s, you will find more later info. Your carrier will be found under 26698 in AWM 127-08. I haven't got details for your carrier (in the same book, but earlier on), but here's the listing for AIF T16694, which became C28919 on 17/12/41, hull no 1110. Some carriers were regd straight onto the C (Commonwealth Gov't) system from new, while others went to the AIF. It would be more likely for an AIF regd carrier to have seen O/S service, but some AMF carriers went to Rabaul and PNG.