1st Hussars and Holy Roller & Perry Kitson

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http://london.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1188140

[jdmcm]

Fantastic Perry! Would sure be great to see Holy Roller roll once more! Good work!

John

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Good to see preservation work in progress. Well done, Perry!

[Darrell Zinck]

Hi

Thanks for that link. Great story. Good job, Perry.

My Holy Roller story starts about an hour before the regiment was to do a D-Day commemorative parade on a Sunday morning there in the park. I was their Transport NCO Reg Force Cadre at the time. Living in St Thomas and having a wife and 1 year old in tow, I arrived early in my parade best. The first thing I saw was that we were the absolute first at the park. Second, I saw the tank had been graffiti'd with anti-war slogans and other mind numbing tripe. Third, was the CO arriving and me watching the Co's eyes bug out. "MCpl, fix that!!" was screamed at me and I was off like a shot. Looking and feeling rather uncomfortable in DEU1A standing at the hardware store on Adelaide, I secured a few cans of flat green spray paint and raced back to the park. By then a group of Hussars had arrived and relieved me of my purchases, covered the offending scrawls and the parade carried on.

I still can see the size of the Joe Murray's eyes in my mind.

regards
Darrell

[Robert Bergeron]

Well done Perry !

Robert

[Perry Kitson]

It is now up to the city and the regimental association to decide how far they want to go to preserve this tank. I am pushing for a full restoration to running.

I am trying to shrink down some photo's of the interior that I took to post here. Hopefully in a couple of days.

Perry