Rams outside 1st Armoured Carrier Regiment

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by Bill Alexander
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".

Reportedly, Ram Kangaroos were often fitted with a British type towing hook (on a vertical bar over the rear hull engine doors), so they could alternatively be used as a gun tower. Not surprisingly, this would work the other way round too as there really was not a lot of difference between a Ram Kangaroo and a Ram Gun Tower. Nice to read it actually happened - great find, Bill!

H.