Kangaroo AWD site near Bayeux, France

[Mark W. Tonner]

Hanno;

Regarding the two pictures of the Priest Kangaroos, one with "69" and the other with "HD 69", chalked/painted on the armour plate, I was wrong. The one with the "69" is actually from the same roll or sequence of the one with "HD 69". Both pictures show Priest Kangaroos carrying troops of the 7th Argyll's, 154th (H) Inf Bde, 51st (H) Inf Div. prior to the start of Operation TOTALIZE. I was doing some research this morning and realized that the 6th Cdn Inf Bde more or less was the second wave of the 2nd Cdn Inf Div's attack, and were on foot, not mounted. Upon looking closer at the photo of the Kangaroo showing just "69", I found that, just barely visible to the left of the '6' is the initials HD, so it is in fact marked HD 69 and not 69. I've circled the area in question. If anyone has a really clear copy of this photo, they should be able to make out the faded HD before the 69. Oh well, we all make mistakes

Cheers