Defrocked Priest in South Alberta Regt.

[John McGillivray]

I was in a book store yesterday and looked through Donald Graves’ new book “Century of Service: The History of the South Alberta Light Horse”. In it was a photo of the South Alberta Regt. HQ vehicles in Bergen-op-Zoom, Netherlands on the 29th of Oct., 1944. This was a photo which I have never seen before. In it can be clearly seen a defrocked Priest along with the other Regt. HQ Vehicles.

I went back and check NAC PA-142088 (shown below) which is dated the 31st of October and the defrocked Priest can be seen in that photo also, covered by a tarp.

This must be one of the vehicles retained by 4th Cdn Armoured Div. for use as cargo carriers to replenish the tanks with ammo and fuel.