Operation Faust, 1945: the units and vehicles

[Bram G.]

In the operation the following unit's took part;

From the CRASC;

• 1st Canadian Infantry Brigade Company
• 3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade Company
• 1st Canadian Divisional Troops Company
• 1st Canadian Armoured Brigade Company
• 2nd Canadian Medium Regiment, First Platoon
• No.32 Canadian Corps Troops Composite, Company
• Headquarters 1st Canadian Infantry Division Royal Canadian Army Service Corps

From the RASC;

• 118th Company
• 460th Company
• 482th Company
• 483th Company
• 930th Company General Transport
• 1542th Artillery Platoon
• 1578th Artillery Platoon

The depot's where most of the food came from where under the Britisch controle of the following unit's;

• No. 80 Base Supply Depot
• No. 192 Detail Issue Depot

I have put in the attachement the rapport of the Canadian Army about the Surrender of the German Force's, which is my scource for the unit's that took part in Operation Faust. On page 42 of the rapport (in the pdf 47) the unit's are listed. The other pdf is a overview of the unit's with there unit serial's, that I have put together so far.
The sources that used for the overview are listed below;

• Order of Battle 1st Canadian Corps http://www.pymes75.plus.com/history/wwii_cdnicorps.html
• Order of Battle XXX Corps (Normandie) http://www.pymes75.plus.com/history/...kxxxcorps.html
• Order of Battle R.C.A.S.C. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roya..._Service_Corps
• Britse Markeringen http://www.wdbsa.nl/division_markings.html
• 21st Army group Markeringen http://www.fireandfury.com/britinfo/divmarkings.pdf
• Unit Signs 1st Canadian Division https://www.canadiansoldiers.com/veh...ntryunits.html
• Order of Battle 1st Canadian Corps https://www.canadiansoldiers.com/org.../1stcorps.html
• Polar Bear Decals http://www.star-decals.net/35-964.html
• A Souvenir of 930th Coy (G.T.) RASC Author: 930th Coy
• World War 2 Military Vehicle Markings Author: Terence Wise

Greetings,

Bram
Member of the Organization Committee Operation Faust, Keep Them Rolling Association