What tanks are these?

[Rob Abbott]

The whole Marlborough area is pretty rich in terms of wartime history and activity. I live in the village of Chiseldon which lies between Swindon and Marlborough on the A346 - The main road onwards to Salisbury and on to the South coast. I remember my Father in Law telling me about Churchill tanks exercising on the Wiltshire downs around here. There was an American Hospital at Chiseldon and 3 miles away is Aldbourne where the US 101st Airborne were billetted. A few miles from there is Chilton Foliat which was a parachute training school prior to DDay.
Savernake Forest is still a magnet for souvenir hunters and all sorts of spent ordnance and bits of rusty kit turn up even now.

[James P]

The pic of the Diamond T driving up the hill in post 1 is just begging for a "After the Battle" type shot from today.

[david moore]

I was back there last April -the railway station - two stations actually both GWR by then - in the background have gone (of course). The lower fields are now houses, a Tesco superstore and a gas station, The hill and Savernake Forest is still intact.

I have just noticed in the picture - if you look carefully - there is a line-up of about 8 more M10's on the road down towards the railway station. Quite a traffic jam - but virtually no civil vehicles allowed on the road anyway so I guess no problem.

[david moore]

I would guess that it is late summer there - so August/September 1944?