Kangaroo Photos wanted

[Bill Miller]

Hi Hanno,

Thanks for posting links to the Ram Census info... neat stuff.

I suspect that with no post-war documentation refering to Kangaroo Armd Ambulances that there were no specific modifications (like the Jeep Ambulance in the photo you posted). Rather they were simply Kangaroos with a red cross?

Speaking with my Dad, he says that the 1CACR were issued large bed sheets with a red cross painted on them when they were pressed into service to carry the wounded. The sheet was either draped over the side of the hull or put up on a pole...

Interestingly enough that is the only way I caught the kangaroo in this still from some unused Pathé newsreel footage. It only lasts a second or so. Mid January 1945, Operation Blackcock.

British Pathé reel number 1978.02 frame 127