New D-Day vehicles for the Canadian army

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by edstorey

Now we have the full story, I wish you had provided those details earlier as you had me believing that you had some mythical BD uniform tht had travelled all through NW Europe.

The well-worn BD in the kit bag is interesting, but how do you know it was field used?

It is nice that you represent the QOR Museum, but to be frank, museums are some of the biggest offenders for glossing over the details, especially when it comes to material history. I asked you about your original earlier post, "Not only that the third Division had new weapons, Uniforms and web. The helmets were the Mk 3 style , the web was Brit. web with web "D"'s, and the uniforms were Canadian style British made. With the exception of the Brens the weapons were new Brit made stens and Enfields." Specifically if you had any primary source material to back up the statement or is this just a theory of yours?

I am glad you deal in more than just Part II Orders and coffee table books, so I will press you again to see if you have any primary source data to back up your statment? Nothing would impress me more if you could provide the QOR QM returns for Mk III Helmets or a written order from the QOR CO directing everyone in the regiment to draw new BD prior to the invasion.

Peter Peter Peter. If only you knew something about WW2 and the military. If only you didn't fall for fake vet's stories. If only you accepted things only after you found the original order that authorized them. Dam, only 40 (maybe 50?) years at this game. What do you know???

Then (oh you really gone and done it) you don't write the entire history of everything you know IN YOUR POST ON A SILLY INTERNET FORUM...well then, there's no hope for you.

You must feel so ashamed.

[Ed Storey]

Bruce, I will take your post in the jest it was intended...

I don't care if someone has been in the game 50 years or 5 days, posting theories without being able to provide some form of primary source proof is just adding the the litany of myths and half-truths that exist in this industry. There is nothing that would make me happier then to have someone attach a scan from a document of CO giving instruction to draw BD for the invasion or what ever, but so far, I have not seen anything.

Vets are great people, we own them a lot and they achieved great things, but they are human. Stories from Vets about kit, weapons, locations, events or daring do are just that, stories. Most Vets didn't give a rat’s backside about what they were issued or when, so enjoy the stories, right them down, but they are but one piece of the puzzle, to base a theory on one piece and one piece only is not good methodology.

I am a Vet, from UNPROFOR, it was 17 years ago. If I told you that we had to paint our issue helmets blue when we got them in Croatia because Canada had to get there fast from Germany an there was not time to paint them in Lahr. Would you believe me? Remember, I was there, I am a Vet (and to boot I have 30 years collecting experience).