Canadian Vehicles on UN Service - UNEF & UNFICYP

[Bob Carriere]

Originally Posted by Darrell Zinck

First is a Ferret in (I believe) Cyprus and showing CFR # 54-82569

In the picture of the Ferret....... head sticking out of the armored front.....

Do you have other pictures of that same guy..... or do you know is name

Possibly Master Warrant Officer.... Ordnance...... he served in Cyprus.....

Died last Summer of heart/age complications..named Marcel Des Gagnes......

........if it is him I would love to have a print, for his family, for the Remembrance Ceremony yet to be announced for the Summer of 21. His son his a Whirly bird Lt Col. in Ottawa.

Thanks for your efforts.

Bob Carriere

[Matthew P]

No figures for your research but in a recent (as in last couple of years) issue in the MVPA magazine was an article on Canadian vehicles in Bosnia.

Matt

[David Cussins]

History shall live on if we dont
Forget it...those with the connections keep digging and shareing info.....keep it alive....thank you all....

[Ed Storey]

MVPA magazine History in Motion published the 'Basic White' article on UNPROFOR Vehicles last Oct-Nov which did feature a Canadian UN Ferret in Cyprus as the lead photograph.

Basic White - Oct-Nov 2020 copy.jpg

This is a photograph of 82575 serving with the Royal Canadian Dragoons in Cyprus.

RCD 3 FV 701 Ferret 82575 (2) copy.jpg