One for Roddy: Sherman names and numbers

[Mark W. Tonner]

Originally Posted by cletrac

From the same person there's also this Sherman in Amsterdam named Courage. I seem to recall a thread about named tanks but can't remember much else about it.

Some notes regarding this photo:

- the Arm of Service Serial of '174' identifies this tank as belonging to the 12th Canadian Armoured Regiment (Three Rivers Regiment), C.A.C./1st Canadian Armoured Brigade.

- the circle on the turret side identifies the tank as belonging to "C" Squadron of the 12th Canadian Armoured Regiment (Three Rivers Regiment).

- within the three armoured regiments of the 1st Canadian Armoured Brigade, tank names began with the letter of the squadron, so in this case COURAGE.

- this photo also proves that 1st Canadian Armoured Brigade retained the AoS serial block 173 to 175 and did not change over to the AoS serial block 51 to 53 upon rejoining First Canadian Army in North West Europe from Italy, in 1945. This topic had been brought up before on the forum, but I cannot remember in which thread.

[cletrac (RIP)]

Here's the info off the back of the photo. These pix should have been in the armour forum so they could be found for future reference.

[tankbarrell]

For the tank itself, it's an early M4A4, rebuilt with full applique armour before issue to the UK and converted to Sherman Vc Firefly.

[Roddy de Normann]

Hi to all...

Ref the E Bay pic, I hold the following:

T. 232429 - Sherman V & VC

Contract S/M.1046

12th (Canadian) Armoured Regiment (Three Rivers Regiment), B Sqn, 25th (Canadian) Armoured Delivery Regiment & 264th Special Delivery Squadron RAC

19 Jun 45 - Veh SOS 12 CAR to B Sqn, 25 CADR then on to 264 Spec Del Sqn - Can NA Microfilm, T-12742

I can now update it !

Roddy de Normann