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Originally posted by kevinT
John,
I have been searching British Pathe trying find photos of Sextons of 23rd Field. Sadly with little luck. But I think I have found one from 13th Field Regiment. There are a couple of frames of a Sexton called "Carrubba" S233951 crossing a swing or cantilever bridge.
The number 43 ( 13th Field? ) is clearly seen with CC (No.3 gun C troop ? ) above it.
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I take it that you are referring to the 13th Fd Regt Royal Horse Artillery, which was the SP Regt of the British 11th Armoured division; and not the 13th Fd Regt RCA which was part of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. If so then the AoS number should be 76 and not 43. The AoS number of 13th Fd RCA was 43, however, they did not use Sextons. They landed on D-Day with M7’s and converted back to towed 25pdrs at the end of July, 1944.