Bridge Sign?

[Colin Alford]

Ed,

The person in the first image is definitely not Don Smith. I don’t recognize the person but it was originally posted by Denis Cardy, and Rob Love suggested above that it might be Denis.

I don’t know Denis, but he might have been a friend of Don’s. I believe that his original assertion that the image was taken shortly after Don acquired the tank is likely correct ( he was just mistaken on the decade). Whether the tank was repainted/remarked between acquisition and the date of the image remains the question.

Given that the observed markings do not conform to the standard markings on a post-war Canadian Sherman, I concur that it was likely repainted/remarked before these images were taken.