OK, enough fun, time to solve the puzzle .......
The AIF code name for the
force in Malaya (it's why my clue had the word 'Force' in bold) was ELBOW. Don't ask me why. It pre-dates the 'bird' forces deployed later to the island-arc north of Australia, so that is presumably why it does not conform to the 'bird force' series of names (good guess about the 'E = Emu', Ken: I'd not thought of that one.)
So vehicles tagged with 'E' in the AWM126 registers were on their way to be offloaded in Singapore and supplied to units of Elbow Force. As Mike has already confirmed with his linking a known registration from an image taken in Malaya, with the registration as listed in AWM 126, the 'E' tagged vehicles ended up in Malaya, no question.
Nice one - always fun to solve a puzzle like that. Took me ages to figure out what 'E' actually stood for, even after I had done a similar linking exercise to Mike K!!
Mike
