War Establishments

[Jordan Baker]

Hi everyone

The following information came from the late Cpt. Forbes of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry. I found these first hand notes in his black book. It seems most officers kept these as a source of information at there finger tips.

Anyway the pages i found most interesting were those showing the dispositions of troops and vehicles within units.

The following were all scanned as best as I could and have not been altered in anyway other then some cropping.

Enjoy.

[Jordan Baker]

7, 8, 9, 10, 11

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12, 13, 14, 15

[Jordan Baker]

Essex Scotish

[Jordan Baker]

RHLI

[cliff]

Originally posted by Jordan Baker
9

I would like to know what was meant by 3 ton 158in GS with Penthouse mentioned in the Field ambulance list.

Now I know it was 158inch wheelbase General Service trucks but what is the "Penthouse" refering to?

Jordan that is very interesting thanks for sharing

cheers
Cliff

[Mark W. Tonner]

Originally posted by cliff
Now I know it was 158inch wheelbase General Service trucks but what is the "Penthouse" refering to?

Hi Cliff;

A 'Penthouse' is a tent like structure that can be errected off the side or rear of a vehicle, example below.

Cheers

[Jon Skagfeld]

Originally posted by Jordan Baker
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AFAICR, Jig Section Sigs was organic to HQ 2 Div Sigs...which is represented by my avatar.

[sapper740]

Originally posted by Jordan Baker
11

Great post Jordan!
Question: What do you think he means by "blanket" lorry?

[Roddy de Normann]

Jordan -

One of the better posts I have seen for a long time...

Within the notes, where there any veh T or CT numbers noted ?

Roddy

[Richard Farrant]

Originally posted by sapper740

Question: What do you think he means by "blanket" lorry?

Derek,

To carry Blankets, Sleeping, for the use of. Don't forget this was in the days before sleeping bags

Richard

[Jordan Baker]

I never saw any mention of veh numbers listed.

[sapper740]

Originally posted by Richard Farrant
To carry Blankets, Sleeping, for the use of. Don't forget this was in the days before sleeping bags

That would have been my first guess, I'm surprised that they actually had a separate designation for it. Your reply helps explain this piece of Canadian kit I picked up:

[sapper740]

Originally posted by Richard Farrant
To carry Blankets, Sleeping, for the use of. Don't forget this was in the days before sleeping bags

here's another pic showing it's size, that's a yard stick laying across it. It's very large, in fact I store my Circular Tent inside it. I tried to put the tent back into it's original container, but gave up after 1/2 hr. of trying! Don't know how they originally got these tents inside!
Now I need a lot of original WW II wool blankets to fill it up.




CHIMO!


Now off to the hockey game!

[Jordan Baker]

I managed to get some more work done on creating a list of RHLI w/e tables.

I found two pages that were helpful within the regimental war diaries. I also have a few photos of the vehicles that are listed. If anyone has any further photos that match known numbers Id love to see them. Sadly when I took pictures of the war diaries I did not get the date in the picture. But I feel they can be dated to the 1941-42 period.

[Jordan Baker]

The pictures that I have so far.

Pic 1 and 2
The C/O's station wagon CM-4202993

Pic 3
The 2 i/c and his 8cwt P.U. Maj. F. Wilkinson

Pic 4 and 5
Battalion HQ Office truck. CM-1203388

[Jordan Baker]

Pic 1
HQ Coy Truck CZ-4204598 (in background)

Pic 2, 3, 4
O.C. Carrier Pl Universal Carrier T-13269 driven by Lt. Whitaker (later Batt. CO)

Pic 5.
Carrier with unit block # in upper left corner.

[Jordan Baker]

Pic 1
CCoy, C13 13Pl CZ-4204828

Pic 2
D Coy, D18, 16Pl CZ-4204960