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.

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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".

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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.