Osprey Men at Arms The Universal Carrier a disappointment

[Michael Dorosh]

Just flipping through this book and noticed a couple illustrations of Canadian carriers. One of the colour plates shows a Royal Winnipeg Rifles carrier but the artist left the maple leaf off of the divisional sign, showing only the grey square. Was this actually a variation? I don't seem to think so.

In a photo of North Novies mortar crew beside a carrier, the carrier is clearly marked with a tactical sign of M1 and yet the caption states "MT" and the author ventures the opinion it represents "Mortar Troop". No such animal in an infantry battalion, of course.

Pretty awful, if you ask me. Is the rest of the book better than that, say, at technical stuff, stowage, etc? His knowledge of markings is clearly pants. I wonder how he is at the other, meatier stuff.