Help to identify

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally posted by Mark W. Tonner

Hi Rich;

This photo appears in the book 'SOUTH ALBERTAS, A CANADIAN REGIMENT AT WAR', by D.E. Graves. The photo credit is to 'DND' (Department of National Defence) and the caption reads:

"The media discover the SAR. Sergeant George Muehllehner (left) of Calgary poses for the Canadian Army photographer with Troopers Gerald Nelles of Edmonton and Rick Frankson of Camrose in April 1943 in a photo used to illustrate an article on the Regiment by Ross Munro. The vehicle is a Loyd carrier."

The caption goes on to say that Trooper Frankson was killed-in-action at Moerbrugge, Belgium, on 12 September 1944. This maybe why the photo you have is captioned 'Belgium 1944'.

The photo was in fact, taken in April 1943 while the SAR were still in the United Kingdom.

Hope this helps.

Cheers

Did the SAR actually go to war with a compliment of Loyds/6 pdrs? Seems a kind of strange kit for an armoured regiment... one would think the Loyds might have been redeployed to supporting infantry AT platoons...