Tanks in Town Mons (BE), Aug. 29/30 2009

[Bob McNeill]

I thought all sextons had the observer seat out the back !!

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Bob McNeill

I thought all sextons had the observer seat out the back !!

Bob, bingo!

While we were driving through the woods, we had to stop several times for other vehicles to make turns etc. So, we were standing for a couple of minutes in an area of what used to be a mining area. I was looking around and saw things like a rusted-out water tank and a crumbling shed. Suddenly my eye struck a familiar shape and I jumped off the Sexton and ran over to grab it. It was indeed a CMP seat! It is rusty and quite mangled, but any CMP thing is worth slinging on the back of the Sexton.

The puzzling thing was that there were no other parts around, it was just sitting there. Apart from a half-track chassis, no truck remains were to be seen on the entire grounds. It will probably remain a mistery how it got there, although it could be labelled a "battle field relic"

Hanno