Unit & Truck ID: 4 Line of Communication (Railhead) Company R.A.S.C.

[Kuno]

Thank you very much for this explanation, David.

[Bob Carriere]

There was a major port on the far Eastern side of the Mediterean that ships were dropping off Canadian CMP and parts...... they were taken to a rail depot in Russia by trucks over Arab territory....... thinking of Bhasra.... so that would have the port...British truck depot...... overland by HD trucks convoy to a railhead in Russia??? Could have been RASC personnel.

Does anyone remember the sea port????

[Kuno]

Thanks Bob - I am afraid I have to limit myself to the time where one section of the unit was detached to the Kufra-Convoys.

[Kuno]

I am afraid but it appears that nobody (not only here) knows about this unit... so it will remain one of the "desert misteries"...

[Keith Brooker]

Hi Kuno,
Do you have any photographs with a unit sign on them as they might be in this book i had printed.
Keith

[Kuno]

Hi Keith - this is the only photo where a unit sign is visible... do you recognize it?


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[Bob Carriere]

Is the driver lying on his side or has the truck flipped????

Unit color sign could be red/Green for RASC or CDN....RCASC with a white cross for the theatre they were in.....like RCASC had a white bottom border for Canadian based vehicles....
PS...I have a shipping way bill addressed to Bashra.....crates contained 6 headlight assembly possibly for the desert 42 LRDG trucks or other Chev lend-lease trucks.