Thank You Aris, Mystery solved! It could well be that the 24 L3's were part pf a consignment of 'War Booty' shipped over from North Africa.
237 guns and 73 Tanks were catured after Sidi Barani in November 1940.
In January 1941 they captured 131 light Tanks, 460 guns and 460 trucks.
Later in January 1941 23 Medium tanks 208 guns and 200 trucks were captured at Tobruk.
Now the Medium tanks (M13's) were pressed into British service,
It was probably the case that some of the servisable L3's were shipped to Greece.
I think any L3's captured in Albania were pressed into use at the front.
Churchill was generally well informed due to an excellent secret service net work in that Part of the world, he was fully aware of the full strength and capabillity of the Greek and Yugoslav Army and the British Secret Service directly influenced the coup in Yugoslavia.
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Marko
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