Rams outside 1st Armoured Carrier Regiment

[Bill Alexander]

I am not sure if this has been discussed before, but in the history of the 6 AT Regt RCA, there is mention made of the towed 17 pdrs being drawn by ram tanks. The 74th and 103rd Bty were equiped exclusively with rams as prime movers and fought the campaign in northwest Europe with this vehicle. Mention is made on several occaisions of the batteries leaving their guns, and the rams deploying as troop carrying vehicles, or as the history calls them, "kangaroos". This appears to have taken place starting in August of 1944 through the end of hostilities. This provided up to 24 rams to act as kangaroos over the period.