Vehicle Door Numbers Canada

[Colin Macgregor Stevens]

Bob:

Good question.

R.C.A.S.C. = Royal Canadian Army Service Corps

The truck in your photo is apparently a C15, not a C8. Note the step below the door. Front axle appears to be straight so would be 4x2 not 4x4.

The abbreviation does mean Regiment de la Chaudiere but as seen in the photo it is abbreviated

R.DE.CHAUD.
Z
40-1-703

Z = truck
40 the year it came into Canadian Army service
-1- - It was NOT on special issue to the RCASC which had their own number systemwhich was silly as there could be a truck with 40-703 as well!
703 = 703rd vehicle taken on strength in 1940.

The unit abbreviated name would have been painted over in 1942.

This unit later landed in Normandy but this truck almost certainly never left Canada and was used during training. For D-Day. mostly new Cab 13 vehicles were used.

Originally Posted by Bob Carriere

Wilf

This is from a snapshot home picture Rob Clarke found at a militaria show and gave me.

It is a C8 possibly taken early in WWII in Farnham PQ.....

Took me a long time to understand that ........ R. De Chaud ...... meant

Regiment de Chaudiere
Z
40-1-703

Colin .......I understand the WWII issue but not being ex military what is the meaning of the RCASC abreviation and the significance of NOT being RCASC

...never to old to learn.