Tank and Vehicle Names Listings

Discussion in 'Vehicle Names and Census Numbers' started by KevinT, Jul 2, 2021.

  1. KevinT

    KevinT Senior Member

    The Pre, WWII and Post WWII pdf files are now in the New Resources.
    The Pre WWII has over 1300 entries with the WWII, 5600+ and Post, 1400+ each having 300+ new entries.
    If you can see any errors or can add anything please let me know.

    cheers

    Kevin
     
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  2. SDP

    SDP Incurable Cometoholic

    I've got a photo (courtesy of the Bovvy Archive) that shows Comet T335335 aka 20ZR65 marked 'Sidi Barrani' whilst serving with 1RTR in Hong Kong in 1958. Checked your database and I couldn't find it, hence this post.
     
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  3. KevinT

    KevinT Senior Member

    Hi Steve,

    Great thank you I will get it added to V7 courtesy of yourself.

    Cheers

    Kevin
     
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  4. KevinT

    KevinT Senior Member

    Hi Steve,

    I have just done a search on the numbers and 20ZR65 came back as a Comet called CALAIS from 3RTR in Hong Kong 1949. Also T335335 was called CELERITY previously. A Comet obviously recycled numerous times.

    Cheers

    Kevin
     
  5. SDP

    SDP Incurable Cometoholic

    Kevin

    As you may remember, I've been researching my late father's Comet for many years and can summarise photos gathered over that time as follows:
    1945 T335335 Celerity 3RTR Germany
    1949 T335335 Calais 3RTR Hong Kong
    (Renumbered in the 1949 scheme to 20ZR65)
    1955-6 20ZR65 not named 7QOH Hong Kong
    1958-59 20ZR65 Sidi Barrani 1RTR Hong Kong
    ....I even have a photo of 20ZR65 Sidi Barrani being scrapped in Hong Kong!
     
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  6. KevinT

    KevinT Senior Member

    Hi Steve,
    Sorry I hadn't initially put the two together. I also didn't know that you had found the start and end of the Comet. But is there still a period of time between 1949 and 1955? I would be surprised if the Comet stayed with the same regiment for 6 years, even though it possibly stayed in the same location.

    Cheers

    Kevin
     
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  7. SDP

    SDP Incurable Cometoholic

    I have photos of the tank for its existence except for:
    1945-48 (it was handed in to a Field Park by 3RTR in August 1945 but was then reissued to 3RTR in 1948 and I have, as yet unvalidated, information that it could have been in the UK/Warminster/Bovington for at least some of that 1945-48 period)
    It's time with 7RTR in Hong Kong in the early 1950s.

    Basically, the tank stayed in Hong Kong from 1949 until being scrapped in 1959 in Hong Kong but was issued to the various Regiments serving there (on approx 3 year terms). This means it served in Hong Kong with 3RTR, 7RTR, 7QOH, and 1RTR.
     
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  8. From A70 194-3, Ram Kangaroos from 1 CACR:

    CT40761 ANARCHIST
    CT40347 ASSASSIN
    CT40856 BLACKPOOL B8
    CT40491 BRIGHTON
    CT40657 ARSENIC

    plus a few Carriers from 7 A & SH whose names are tricky to read.
     
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  9. KevinT

    KevinT Senior Member

    Hi Michel,

    Thank you. Added to V7 Names Listing.

    Cheers

    Kevin
     
  10. Bill Miller

    Bill Miller New Member

    Those Kangaroos are not 1CACR, but 'A' Squadron, 49APCR (the British Kangaroos).

    With names like Brighton and Blackpool!? C'mon, I didn't even have to review the footage to know they weren't the Canadian Regiment... seriously though, really good footage.

    Bill Miller (1CACR Archive)
     
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  11. KevinT

    KevinT Senior Member

    Hi Bill,

    Thanks for the confirmation, records amended accordingly.
    Long time no speak, how are things?

    Cheers

    Kevin
     
  12. KevinT

    KevinT Senior Member

    Hi Michel,

    Managed to make out CUPAR, one of the 7 A & SH carriers, couldn't make out any others though.

    Cheers

    Kevin
     
  13. Bill Miller

    Bill Miller New Member

    Hello Kevin, yes it has been awhile hasn't it. Things are well, still plugging away at the Regimental Archive.

    I have some more verified 49APCR names/census numbers that you may not have?
    CT40601 'BULL' (A Sqn)
    CT40576 'COD' (A Sqn)
    CT40189 'COMET' (A Sqn)
    CT39862 'TAPIR' (F Sqn)
    CT160052 'TYRANT' (F Sqn)
    CT40694 'TARANTULA' (F Sqn)

    I have many other names and numbers from photos and screen captures, but as you know it is hard to match them up unless you can get multiple photos from multiple angles.

    Bill.
     
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  14. KevinT

    KevinT Senior Member

    Hi Bill,

    Glad to here everything is OK and still working on the archive.

    Thank you for the names and numbers I have added them to the listing crediting them to you. All are new with the exception of TARANTULA which I had but was missing the number and squadron, a few more missing gaps filled.

    I do know what you mean about identifying the partial names / numbers from screen grabs etc as can bee seen from some of my posts on here, Another Knocked Out Grant as an example. I came across a partial name on a Daimler A/C last night on one of the Dutch archive sites. It looked to start CONCU ( someone stood blocking the rest ), so my immediate thought was CONCUBINE. I continued to search and found another from another angle with the name ending EST so it was CONQUEST. Who the A/C belonged to is another matter.

    I would welcome anything, if you want to send any images PM me and I will send you my email address ( still the same ).
    BTW did you ever confirm TREBECKY? RODA, on an email you sent me 11/12/2006?

    Cheers

    Kevin
     
  15. Bill Miller

    Bill Miller New Member


    Hi Kevin, I will update my database of known names and numbers and send you an email in the coming week.
    Regarding 'TerBecky Roda', I have only one image, and the painted name is at such a severe angle it is impossible to read it accurately. The name really makes no sense, does it? However, it might be an egalitarian way of incorporating the names of the crew members' wives/girlfriends? We have other hyphenated names like, 'Joan-Margot', 'Matha-Marj' and 'Laura-Mae', if this was a section Sgt's vehicle with three crew members, it could be an amalgam of Teresa, Becky and Rhoda?? Only a guess though.

    I'm also open to any other suggestions or interpretations of this photo.
     

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  16. Bill Miller

    Bill Miller New Member


    Kevin, one other thing. In collecting and studying photos of the British Kangaroos I can verify that the individual Squadrons had a more conventional naming scheme for their APCs than did the Canadian Regiment.

    'A' Squadron's four troops (12 APCs each) named their APCs starting with a specific letter of the alphabet. In their case;
    'A' = 1st Troop
    'B' = 2nd Troop
    'C' = 3rd Troop
    'D' = 4th Troop

    'C' Squadron;
    'K' = 1st Troop
    'L' = 2nd Troop
    'M' = 3rd Troop
    'N' = 4th Troop

    A third fighting squadron, 'F' Sqn, which was added in March '45 for the Rhine Crossings, seems to only have been organized into 3 troops (16 APCs each?), that I have been able to identify?
    'R' = 1st Troop
    'S' = 2nd Troop
    'T' = 3rd Troop


    If you are on Facebook, I'd suggest checking out the Archive page which sort of replaced our old website. Lots of photos and data there about Kangaroos in Canadian and British service, NWE, Italy and postwar in the MELF as well as Ram Tank info... (Canadian Kangaroo Regiment Archive or @canadiankangaroos)

    Bill.
     

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