Australian Army Vehicle Registers AWM126

[Ken Smith]

Also as a nice double check of ship movements there is a site called "WW11 merchant ship movement records Australia" it is a scan of thousands of ships movements, it also lets you know if and when a ship was lost and how it was lost. It also shows where the ship left from, with my truck it was Melbourne, there is a little discrepancy in the AWM date and the ship log date but I have put that down to the AWM date is the loading date and the log date is the actual sailing date.
If you get real keen you can then google the ships name and in most cases there will be a photo of the ship some time in its life.
With the ship voyage that took my Chev AIF L16070 to S(ME), someone has written in pencil that the voyage was to Aden but I assume that was the ship's first port of call as it is a fair hike from Aden up to Syria. I also assume that the truck went to Syria as it left Australia in October 1941 and maybe the S part of the destination is Syria (to the 2/101 General Transport Company, wishful thinking).
The ship my truck went on was the Tricolor spelt incorrectly as Tricolour in the AWM ARN book.

Ken