OK, this will ramble a bit as I don't remember everyting I posted before...The photos of the Bren Carrier and T16 with the weird paint jobs are out near Singapore. My other post was just a series of comments related to not always being able to trust things found at a muesum or historical site as being genuine.
The Bren Carrier shown has solid road wheels which are most likley from a T16 and its one of the flame thrower models. Likely just vehicles purchased for their collection and never used in the fighting over there.
Back on the muesum reference, in particular to the Normandy museum with "proof" of T16 use because they had a battle damaged one inside....
The battle damaged artillery pieces at the British airborne muesum at Arnhem are not original to the grounds and were donated after they established the memorial. Most people would assume they were last stand pieces from the fighting there.
The Pegasus Memorial at Ranville and the Merville Battery musuem are the same thing with 90+ percent of thier items being donated decades after the war. Some of the relics are genuine to the area while others are examples of like items.
I have no doubt that T16s landed at Normandy during the war and drove down the roads on their way to the fighting further inland after the breakout was completed. All armor had to cross the channel and then drive to its next destination. For the real proof, we need to get into the IWM and Canadian archives and find the series of photos from the other "Normandy T16" message thread.
For all we know, the photos are from a film or documentary similar to "Theirs is the Glory" which was made on location at Arnhem and used real soldiers and equipment but it was a year later. I could pull a film cell showing a British PIAT used to destroy a Tiger but the beast was already dead. Caption though would be accurate as a Tiger being taken out during the fighting at Arnhem.
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