Hi everyone

The following information came from the late Cpt. Forbes of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry. I found these first hand notes in his black book. It seems most officers kept these as a source of information at there finger tips.

Anyway the pages i found most interesting were those showing the dispositions of troops and vehicles within units.

The following were all scanned as best as I could and have not been altered in anyway other then some cropping.

Enjoy.

7, 8, 9, 10, 11

12, 13, 14, 15

Essex Scotish

RHLI

I would like to know what was meant by 3 ton 158in GS with Penthouse mentioned in the Field ambulance list.

Now I know it was 158inch wheelbase General Service trucks but what is the "Penthouse" refering to?

Jordan that is very interesting thanks for sharing

cheers
Cliff :)

Re; 'Penthouse'
 

Hi Cliff;

A 'Penthouse' is a tent like structure that can be errected off the side or rear of a vehicle, example below.

Cheers :)

AFAICR, Jig Section Sigs was organic to HQ 2 Div Sigs...which is represented by my avatar.

Great post Jordan!
Question: What do you think he means by "blanket" lorry?

RHLI Notes
 

Jordan -

One of the better posts I have seen for a long time...

Within the notes, where there any veh T or CT numbers noted ?

Roddy

Derek,

To carry Blankets, Sleeping, for the use of. Don't forget this was in the days before sleeping bags ;)

Richard

I never saw any mention of veh numbers listed.

That would have been my first guess, I'm surprised that they actually had a separate designation for it. Your reply helps explain this piece of Canadian kit I picked up:

here's another pic showing it's size, that's a yard stick laying across it. It's very large, in fact I store my Circular Tent inside it. I tried to put the tent back into it's original container, but gave up after 1/2 hr. of trying! Don't know how they originally got these tents inside!
Now I need a lot of original WW II wool blankets to fill it up.




:cheers: :salute: :drunk: CHIMO!


Now off to the hockey game!

I managed to get some more work done on creating a list of RHLI w/e tables.

I found two pages that were helpful within the regimental war diaries. I also have a few photos of the vehicles that are listed. If anyone has any further photos that match known numbers Id love to see them. Sadly when I took pictures of the war diaries I did not get the date in the picture. But I feel they can be dated to the 1941-42 period.

The pictures that I have so far.

Pic 1 and 2
The C/O's station wagon CM-4202993

Pic 3
The 2 i/c and his 8cwt P.U. Maj. F. Wilkinson

Pic 4 and 5
Battalion HQ Office truck. CM-1203388

Pic 1
HQ Coy Truck CZ-4204598 (in background)

Pic 2, 3, 4
O.C. Carrier Pl Universal Carrier T-13269 driven by Lt. Whitaker (later Batt. CO)

Pic 5.
Carrier with unit block # in upper left corner.

Pic 1
CCoy, C13 13Pl CZ-4204828

Pic 2
D Coy, D18, 16Pl CZ-4204960