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Old 04-02-10, 20:32
Rogier Peeters Rogier Peeters is offline
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Hanno,

thanks for identifying the car in the photo. The Standard Utility indeed does not appear to be in this list. My thoughts are twofold:
1. the list is from March 1943, the photo from 1945;
2. the vehicle does not belong to the Irene Brigade, but probably to the staff of 'Bevelhebber Nederlandse Strijdkrachten'. For comparison I attached a photo of Prins Bernhard's Mercedes.
(http://www.haagsebeeldbank.nl/hga:col1:dat246344)
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I also found a photo of an Allied Opel Blitz in The Hague. According to the caption it is Canadian. Unfortunately unit markings are not clearly visible, however the marking on the left fender does look like the Irene Brigade marking.

Rogier

http://www.haagsebeeldbank.nl/hga:col1:dat246553
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