Vehicle Door Numbers Canada

[Colin Macgregor Stevens]

Phil

#2 Provost jeep appears to have unit sign of 40 (would be white on black) and that was for Divisional Headquarters

#3 Gun is a 40mm Bofors Anti-aircraft Gun

#6 Spence's Bridge (not Spencer's)

# 15 Cwt Cab 13 (1942-1945 production)

#6, #9, #11,#12 #14 all appear to be of the same accident where a towed Gun, a 40mm Bofors Anti-aircraft Gun slipped off the road onto a down slope ("some ditch!" as Churchill might have said) You can check your original photos to see if the towing vehicle is a 60 Cwt GS Lorry (New DND number would start with L) or a 30 Cwt. LAAT (Light Anti-Aicraft Tractor). If the latter, the New DND number should start with H for Tractor.

#13 CMP Cab 12 15 Cwt. The NEW DND number Z57-092 means it was Z = Truck, and the 7,092nd (or 7,091st? as numbering started at 50-001) vehicle recorded on the new system which started about January 1943. This particular truck would have had a n OLD DND number previously.

The convoy appears to be heading North up the Fraser Canyon from around Military Camp Chilliwack towards Prince George, BC.

There are two options:

1. That this is part of the 8th Canadian Infantry Division (Northern British Columbia), Mar. 1942 - Oct. 1943 Divisional troops based in Prince George
14th Infantry Brigade (Terrace)
16th Infantry Brigade (Prince George)

2. That it is one of the special winter exercises during the war.


Colin Stevens

Originally Posted by Phil Waterman

Hi All


Just to add to the fun and maybe the knowledge base take a look through the old photos I bought on e-bay several years ago of CMPs in Service in British Columbia. Where visible they many seem to Z two numbers then a dash and then three numbers. But not all of them follow that pattern.

http://canadianmilitarypattern.com/C...20Columbia.htm

Cheers Phil