Ford Model E01A (was: US Staff Car?)

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

“23 Aug 1942, North Africa. Winston Churchill greeting men from 4 Queen's Own Hussars.”

Some more featuring Churchill:

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[David Dunlop]

Hanno.

Thank you for the photos in Post#25.

My Dad served with the Queens Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada, from Winnipeg during the war, enlisting in 1939 and going to England with the Headquarters Company the following year. He was reassigned from Rifleman to an Admin Clerk shortly after arrival in England and rose to Staff Sgt.

He was seconded from the Regiment to Algiers at some point, and only ever explained that the Canadian Army was setting something up over there he had been assigned to assist in. He met my Mum, who was working in the NAAFI at the NAAFI Relief Camp at Surcouf, about 40 miles east of Algiers on the coast.

Most of the NAAFI Records for that camp were lost in a post-war fire in England, and I have yet to sort out Dad’s own war records to try and understand how and why he ended up in a part of the war for a while, where the rest of his Regiment never was assigned.

David

[Hanno Spoelstra]

1942 model Ford E01A in use as a real Staff car:

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