Canadian Ambulance Jeep with overhead cover

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Does anyone have more information about this version of an Ambulance Jeep?

Photo was made during the Memorial D-Day Parade including the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division at Utrecht, The Netherlands, on 6 June 1945.


Source: https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/...8360510AAF811D

[derk derin]

Looks like the same jeep ambulance design as the one in this famous photo taken in Germany. Photo credit to the Silverhawk website.
I was considering this style of jeep ambulance when I was restoring my WWII jeep. The metalwork I could have made up but there’s no way I could have sewn up all that canvas so decided on the simple jeep ambulance design.
Derk

[Jordan Baker]

Here is a few more photos them.

I tried searching in the CMHQ files and was unable to find anything on this particular version. It had to have been an official item due to how many are pictured.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Derk, Jordan, thanks for your input.

All of the photos on this thread were made near the very end or after WW2. It may have been some sort of prototype/ in theatre conversion which wasn't very well documented by the CMHQ?

PS: This one was new to me, I found it captioned "Ernest Wood sitting on his Jeep in Holland, March, 1945".


Source: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia....iam-ernie-wood

[David Dunlop]

What type of 2-wheel trailer is that, backed into the left rear corner of the photo? It looks rather narrow.


David

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by David Dunlop

What type of 2-wheel trailer is that, backed into the left rear corner of the photo? It looks rather narrow.

It's not an Allied military trailer, I suspect it is a civilian one.

[Alex van de Wetering]

Clive does mention them in his book, but the info on the canopy is limited.

source: "Drive to Victory", Clive Law.

[Ed Storey]

Is there any evidence showing this model of Ambulance Jeep being used by any other formation besides 3rd Canadian Infantry Division and is there any record of these Jeeps being handed over to the Dutch after the war?

[Jordan Baker]

Here is another with the same type of cover. Interestingly the Jeep with the cover is a slat grill Canadian contract. The other Jeep beside it is also a later Cnd contract.

Ed, so far the images all show 3rd CID medical units. Unfortunately the RCAMC war diaries are not online.

[Jordan Baker]

As for the trailer, I believe it is a British Infantry Handcart. Pictures from British WW2 Trailers Facebook group.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Jordan Baker

As for the trailer, I believe it is a British Infantry Handcart. Pictures from British WW2 Trailers Facebook group.

It certainly looks like one, I stand corrected.

[Alex van de Wetering]

Originally Posted by Jordan Baker

As for the trailer, I believe it is a British Infantry Handcart. Pictures from British WW2 Trailers Facebook group.

That was my thought exactly, but it has a different drawbar and fenders fitted, so if it is one, than someone modified it.

[Jordan Baker]

Found a few more from British Pathe film still I saved years ago. Ill have to do some searching for the actual film these were taken from.

[Jordan Baker]

Lots to see in this film. The ambulance Jeeps are around 1:30.


https://www.britishpathe.com/asset/96081/