Marlborough, Wilts wartime photos
A bit off-subject I know but in the background to the photo we are discussing you can see Marlborough GWR station (where my father liaised with Sgt Oscar Fulk to direct ammunition trains to the huge Savernake Forest US Army ammuntion depot just two miles south of Postern Hill). Also arriving at that station after D-Day were ambulance trains with US wounded headed for the 347th MASH hospital in Marlborough. Attached is a picture of one such ambulance train - you can just see the red cross on the roof. Austin ambulance in US service. Alao a photo of US Dodge ambulances delivering to the hospital, Also a photo of Sgt Fulk in his jeep .He stayed on in the UK after the war and ran a pub sadly without his jeep! My dad stayed pals with him.
Also loading or unloading Churchill tanks there.
Maybe that's the clue - those tanks were sent by rail to Marlborough station and unloaded there? But again why not rail them all the way?!
Photos courtesy of Neil Stevens.
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