Somebody please help

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally posted by davlew25
My uncle was a Quartermaster SGT. in the Ontario Tank, he said he supplied the Fort Garry Horse, The 1st Hussars, The Sherbrooke Fusiliers and Calgary Tank. He is getting old, and his memory is not what it used to be. I want to make sure I have the right Information. He went in on D-Day +3. Any help would be much appreciated.

davlew25, the Ontario Regiment was a fighting tank regiment in Italy at that time. If as per the bold above your uncle was delivering tanks to the above-mentioned regiments in Normandy, he will have been a member of the Elgin Regiment, otherwise known as the 25th Canadian Armoured Delivery Regiment. He may have been seconded from the ONTARs from early 1943, though.

Interestingly, the Elgins provided the first six officers and some of the men for the first Kangaroos, at the end of July 1944. Ask him if he was any part of that operation. The early Kangaroos were under administrative command of the Elgin Regiment, so as QM Sgt, it's likely he had some interface with them. See my other website http://www.1cacr.org for more info; I am the Kangaroos' official spokesman these days. Information on the first two months' operation of the Kangaroos is scarce, and there's only a handful of them still around and known to us, so any source of info is gold.

BTW, The Elgins still exist as a militia unit, but have been converted to Combat Engineers; their HQ is in St Thomas, Ontario. Where are you and your dad?