Those tyres look like 10:50x18's to me... very much an Australian Army requirement.
Agree about the probable source, too: quite likely one of the 2,000 odd vehicles supplied from Australia that were written off as 'lost in Greece'. A proportion were no doubt salvageable or left in more or less working order. There was a reluctance to set fire to vehicles in the latter stages of the retreat as this aided the enemy in spotting concentrations of troops heading to the evacuation beaches, so many were simply smashed up as best they could with whatever tools were available.
Mike C
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