can anyone id these kiwi quads in italy?

[threadbear]

A couple of questions regarding the great photograph of the Quads lined up.

1:- Are these Quads towing 6pdrs as thet dont appear to be towing the limbers associated with the 25lber?

2:- The "2E" triangle on the cab door appears to be in 3 colours. Based on books I have, would that marking be red, blue and underlined white?

3:- Would these trucks have any Arm of Service markings? I imagine that it would involve the New Zealnd fern?

Thanks for any information.

Incidentally I hopefully will be posting a photo sometime in the future of one of my Uncles with his CMP(?) in North Africa.


Regards

Grahame

[cliff]

Originally Posted by threadbear

A couple of questions regarding the great photograph of the Quads lined up.

1:- Are these Quads towing 6pdrs as thet dont appear to be towing the limbers associated with the 25lber?


Regards

Grahame

Graham if you look at the 5th post up from yours you can clearly see in that photo that they are towing limbers and the guns are 25 lber's.

[kiwiquad]

Originally Posted by threadbear

A couple of questions regarding the great photograph of the Quads lined up.

1:- Are these Quads towing 6pdrs as thet dont appear to be towing the limbers associated with the 25lber?

2:- The "2E" triangle on the cab door appears to be in 3 colours. Based on books I have, would that marking be red, blue and underlined white?

3:- Would these trucks have any Arm of Service markings? I imagine that it would involve the New Zealnd fern?

Thanks for any information.

Incidentally I hopefully will be posting a photo sometime in the future of one of my Uncles with his CMP(?) in North Africa.


Regards

Grahame

gday Grahame,
id say there would be markings on the rear such as that photo with the beer bottles, going by kiwi photos ive seen in books there could be the number with the fernleaf on the right rear i think, its hard as the photos i have are usually from a distance, some close ups would have been good,even taken while driving, im sure there were more but over time they disappear, i was given some more recently from my dad who found them in a lot of gear my grandmother had, some of these of which i put on the site. mike, yeah the colurs i think are correct as you stated..

[Tony Smith]

6 Field Regiment was composed of a HQ and three Batteries of 2 Troops each:

RHQ
29 Bty (A and C Troops)
30 Bty (D and F Troops)
48 Bty (B and E Troops)

6 Fd Regt was attached to 6 Bde of 2 NZ Div.

The Arm of Service sign was a triangle with Red over Blue (AoS colours for Arty) with the number 53. The Formation sign for 2 NZ Div was a white "Silver fern" on a black background.

[Tony Smith]

To distinguish each Battery within the Regiment, signs featured a 1" coloured strip along the bottom of the AoS:

29 Bty: Red
30 Bty: Green
48 Bty: Yellow

[kiwiquad]

Originally Posted by Tony Smith

To distinguish each Battery within the Regiment, signs featured a 1" coloured strip along the bottom of the AoS:

29 Bty: Red
30 Bty: Green
48 Bty: Yellow

thanks tony thats helped me out immensely , so far the closest i can get to one of these is my tamiya ford which is still in the box, at least ill be able to paint it up etc as my grandfathers was, all i need now is the paint scheme for italy, going by the photos i posted it looks like khaki but i could be wrong, i heard they went green for the european theatre. cheers again tony mike

[threadbear]

Sorry for the delay to replying but thank you for the information regarding the markings of the Quads.

Regards

Grahame