Kangaroo Photos wanted

[Bill Miller]

Hi Wim and Mark,

First of all thanks Wim for the interesting new photos showing kangaroo personnel!! I'm going to have to inquire about get larger copies of these photos from these archives as I may be able to identify some or all of the "kangaroos" involved! Indeed there are a couple of familiar faces in the one larger group photo. The fellow standing on the engine deck on the left is familiar to me. I also notice a faint marking of the tank's name on the fender, "SISCA"? Great photos!

Mark, as for whether the two photos were taken at or near the same place, time of year, I would think it is likely. Though Hanno would be more familiar with the architecture of the area to affirm. From what I have come across so far, most of the photos of kangaroos in action come in batches taken all on or around the same day/action by the same war photographer. My opinion/guess is same locale. Definitely both 49APCR.

Wim's posted photographs could be Hengelo, though maybe not the actual "liberation". I am at work right now and don't have my list of lifts and place names travelled by the 1CACR but I do know that their 12 pg History and Col. Churchill's address pamphlet were both printed in Hengelo, so at some point, somebody from the regt. was there.

The bars on the inside (in the second of Wim's photos) are definitely tarp/bivouac support. According to my Dad, these were all improvised by the guys in the field. Some used a simple, single bar traversing the length of the turret ring. Some used two bars to made a "y" or an "x" shape. Example photo attached.
http://graceland.gentle.org/whatcha/kanga.html

Bill.