Hi james

you could be right the location, looks very much like the village of Cranbrook in Kent
cheers
Les

Hi Les,

Thought it might be somewhere like that. As you know the Canadians were based all over Kent, Surrey and Sussex, and somewhere I have a short piece of film taken in about 1941 of a convoy of Canadian Bren carriers driving down my own village high street. It was an official film. Unfortunately with my recent moving to and from Africa, have managed to mislay it.

James

Here's another picture of a Ford F15A in Holland. Note the 10-cwt trailer and recognition star painted on the cab roof and inside of roof hatch.

Census number CZ4285711, unit sign "68".

Picture credit: Public Archives Canada. Published in Kaufman/Horn: De Canadezen in Nederland 1944~1945. No details re. location, date, etc. printed.

http://www.surfacezero.com/g503/data...11_resized.jpg

Another Ford F15A in Holland. Typical scene right after the war ended: collaborators are rounded up and the Canadian soldier has found the push bike is a handy thing to carry on and in one's 15-cwt!

Census number is CZ4254984, unit sign shows "68".

Picture credit: Public Archives Canada.
Published in Kaufman/Horn: De Canadezen in Nederland 1944~1945.
No details re. location, date, etc. printed.

http://www.surfacezero.com/g503/data...84_resized.jpg

Some more F15A's in Holland, courtesy of http://www.beeldbankwo2.nl!

First one shows CZ4256001 of the Le Régiment de Maisonneuve at Groningen.

Pair of F15A's at Leeuwarden.

Another F15A at Leeuwarden, CZ42563...

First time I have seen an wheeled vehicle chalked up like this. Judging by the pictures available, this was done more often to tanks passing through all the small towns in Holland.

Yet another picture taken at Leeuwarden.
And do I see another 6-pdr AT gun cleaning rod on top of the cargo box cover?

Blurry picture, typical snapshot of the period.

Holland was liberated by F15A's! ;)

http://www.surfacezero.com/g503/data...G_1838_001.jpg

Source: Groninger archieven, courtesy of Arjan van der Hoek.

Colour(!) pictures submitted by Clive Law, see Friendly fire:

That must have been a cable truck with that roll mounted in the back. What model of box would it be with those extensions sticking up over the wheel wells? Could they have been some sort of seat back?

Hadn't even noticed those yet! Yes, they are seat backs, denoting this is the personnel variant. See the pic below.

F15A during the liberation of Amsterdam.

Note the cab, it seems to have been stripped of its roof and doors and fitted with a canvas top.
H.

Aussie F15A
 

Here's an interesting picture of a modified F15A, taken, I assume at Camp Miowera, Queensland during the war. It has several interesting modifications, not the least of which are the cab roof, the German style black out lights on the fenders, the lack of front bumper and bush guard, as well as the front rim. Can any of our Aussie friends share any info regarding this picture?

F15
 

Looks to me like a recaptured F15 taken in North Africa. I think they are German lights fitted aren't they?

From www.beeldbankwo2.nl:

Two more pictures of 13 Cab 15-cwt's in Normandy. I can´t tell if these are Fords or Chevs, however.

No idea if they are Ford or Chev, but the location is the city centre of Courseulles. The Parc with the wall next to it in the first picture, is now the parking lot in the centre of town.

Alex

Miowera 2009
 

I thought everyone might like to see Miowera Camp Site today. A bit of then and now!
Took pics beside Highway1 this afternoon 16/11/2009.
If anyone wants other shots of the area PM me.

The shapeless thing on the left of the photo is a Morris-Commercial C9/B SP Bofors gun - a very rare thing to find in a photo. I'd like to see a clearer copy of the photo if possible, where is it from?

photo of that morris
 

Here is a original photo from my collection of a morris that i think is a C9/? taken in may 1945 at Sylt.

I think this is an F15A.

Picture taken during Operation Cannonshot at Voorst, Netherlands.

http://www.surfacezero.com/g503/data...orst_groot.jpg

Not WW2, but still wartime for the Dutch and Indonesians.

Caption: Military Police checks a cargo truck, Indonesia 1946

Not sure if this is F15 or F15A. RAAF 3 Sqdn personnel on leave trip to Naples, November 1943. Photo sent home by my father, that's him standing centre.

I'd guess F15 judging by the ride height.

Yes I suspect you're right, this one in Sicily looks like F15 too, possibly the same truck.

Found this today
 

In an old Dutch -Canadian book

"Liberated POWs abandoned by the Japanese at Pegu and rescued by the advancing 14th Army queuing for new kit, 3 May 1945."

Look at the 15-cwt in the background, there are Dodge WC52's too.

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The F15A was used extensively by Australian arty units and one of my favourite wartime pics is this attractive image at Joint Overseas Operational Training School Nelson's Bay NSW December '42. Plenty of Australian arty interest here, and the landing craft marked Ubique completes the scene. F15A is 6th Div and appears to be freshly painted in what I believe to be the high contrast disruptive scheme Vehicle Dark Green / Vehicle Light Grey specified in November '42. This scheme is rarely seen in wartime pics. Tyres look oversize to me, possibly desert tread..? Anyway it looks fabulous I reckon, would make for an excellent replica project.

Cab 12 FAT is ex-Middle East, probably 2/11 Fd Regt as this unit received a number of Chev Cab 12 FATs prior to departure for Australia in Feb 42, which appear to be the only Cab 12 FATs ever to reach Australia. They arrived in British desert scheme (Light Stone) and were subsequently reallocated and repainted, some of them evidently receiving the November '42 camo scheme also.

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