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Old 20-12-03, 05:18
Gordon Yeo Gordon Yeo is offline
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Default 1st Div transport

Farley Mowat was an officer in the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment which went to France with the 50 trucks and 10 universal carriers.From his book The Regiment
"On Monday morning the order came to destroy all vehicles by fire.But we couldn't burn the trucks because it would have set the wood and chateau alight and drawn every German plane for a hundred miles,so we did the next best.We went to work on all those lovely trucks with pick axes;punctured tires,gas tanks and radiators;jammed up bodies;sheared off engine parts and cracked the blocks.Then we destroyed the equipment in them;the whole Regiments equipment"
No it doesn't seem probable that the truck in the photo is a 1st Division Vehicle.
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