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31-01-10, 13:04
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Hi Peter
Sorry maybe its just me getting home from night shift, but the 1941 list you have. Was it RHLI or CH. At any rate are you able to post it up. Would be great to see. I'd assume that the tac signs would be the same for both regiments since they were both in the same division. Thats very cool and I wish there was a list that was made for the war diaries, reading if it was sunny or not is interesting.......this is a "tad" bit more....
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Jordan Baker RHLI Museum, Otter LRC C15A-Wire3, 1944 Willys MB, 1942 10cwt Canadian trailer 
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31-01-10, 17:04
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The 1941 list .....
.....is QOR. As is the Tac Sign Group. Very different from Europe.
I'll have to look for them. Peter S
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31-01-10, 17:15
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Derk. Our Unit (QOR)...
....had a Medical Officer (Capt.) attached, who had a HUP and a driver. He also had a 15 cwt. with two drivers and his Medical Equipment and tents etc. In the Infantry Units the Band members were the stretcher bearers and medics. They did a quick patch and brought the injured man to the MO. He did a further patch and sent the troops off to Brigade either in the Unit Medical jeep, which carried three strechers or in Brigade ambulances.
The Chaplain and his team recovered the KIA for burial. When a strecher man was killed the replacement order asked for a man with musical instrument skills. (Of course) Peter S
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31-01-10, 18:19
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Would love to see the Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa (MG) vehicle list breakdown.
Was there a date associated with the sheets you found? Seems the T-16 in the A/T gun role was held off until all of the 4.2-inch mortar platoons were equipped with the T-16. Just wondering when that would have been accomplished. Thinking it would have been August-September 1944. Also very interesting that they differentiated the jeeps by maker. I'd have thought at the time that a Willys or Ford were both simply jeeps to them.
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David Gordon - MVPA # 15292 '41 Willys MB British Airborne Jeep '42 Excelsior Welbike Mark I '43 BSA Folding Military Bicycle '44 Orme-Evans Airborne Trailer No. 1 Mk. II '44 Airborne 100-Gallon Water Bowser Trailer '44 Jowett Cars 4.2-Inch Towed Mortar '44 Daimler Scout Car Mark II '45 Studebaker M29C Weasel
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31-01-10, 18:48
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The date on them...
....is 20th June 1944. Can't comment on your thoughts about the gpw/willys thing but agree with what you're thinking.
Peter S
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31-01-10, 19:16
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Thanks for that info Peter
Now if we could only cross engine and chassis serial #'s to this list, that would be very interesting reading for us out west with CMP's Thanks for sharing this with us all. 
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Terry British Columbia , Canada 1942ish F15441-M
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31-01-10, 19:50
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musicians
One night many, many years ago while outside at band practice an old vet who had been in the army came across the street and said 'Here is something for you to keep'. I am a piper and it was at the Legion where we have band pracice, it was nice summers evening and we were outside with our instruments.
He then told me the story about what he had given me. It was a silver furrel off the the blow pipe of the Regimental Pipemajor of the Calgary Highlanders bagpipes. What made it so interesting was that it was all they found and recognized of the bagpipes after the 15CWT the bagpipes were on was blown up by enemy fire. I wonder if that truck is on that list? The silver furrel is one of my treasures.
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