[Stellan Bojerud (RIP)]

Thank you very much, Hanno!

From the information you provide I draw the following conclusions:

On 13 Feb 1942 B-Sqn 3rd King´s Own Hussars arrived at Oosthaven (SE tip of Sumatra also known as Pandjang) onboard transport ship HERMION. Disembarked 14 Feb.

Reembarked 16 Feb on SILVER LATCH and a lighter towed by a tugboat. The tugboat with the lighter carrying 8 Tanks and 2 trucks sailed for Tandjoeng Priok in the evening 16 Feb.

The rest of the Sqn sailed 17 Feb (SILVER LATCH?) from Oosthaven to Merak (NW tip of Java). In peacetime there was a railway ferry running between Oosthaven and Merak.

There are pictures from Oosthaven 17 Feb AWM n:os 306789--306791 showing the Sqn embark.

Anyhow the Sqn disembarked in Merak and moved by train to Batavia. A few stayed onboard the transport ship and sailed for Tandjoeng Priok.

It is not stated if the vehicles were disembarked in Merak or if they stayed aboard the ship and sailed to Tandjoeng Priok. I think they sailed, since the railway from Merak to Batavia should have a limited capacity to freight tanks and other vehicles. If they however should be moved by rail, they should not have been taken to Tandjoeng Priok, wich is east of Batavia and that should be an ill selected place - already crowded by men and vehicles.

So if the Humbers belonged to B-Sqn it fits in that they could be in Tandjoeng Priok on 19 Feb arriving by sea.

And on 26th Feb they joined "Blackforce".

So now it remains to find evidence that there were Humber ACs in the B-Sqn.

Stellan