Ram Badger (with Wasp Mk II Flame Thrower)

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

"A Ram Badger flame-thrower of the Badger Troop, Headquarters, 5th Canadian Armoured Brigade. This was one of four Ram Badgers in this Troop. It was commanded by Lt. W.L. McCollum (C.A.C.) from 5 to 19 April 1945. Lt. McCollum can be seen in the top hatch while his Badger was photographed when passing through Putten, The Netherlands, on 18 April 1945. *snip*

Bill Miller wrote:

Ram Badgers (the flame throwing cousins to the Kangaroo) pass through Groningen, on or about April 16, 1945.
Thanks to Rick Minichiello for alerting us to some Archival 8mm footage of various armoured units in Groningen, Netherlands just after the liberation of that city in April 1945.
Amongst footage of various armoured and soft-skinned vehicles of units like the Fort Garry Horse, Royal Canadian Dragoons and Lord Strathcona’s Horse, we see just 12 seconds of the Badger Troop, Headquarters, 5th Canadian Armoured Brigade.
The troop makes a sharp right turn onto a busy street and that last Badger narrowly avoids flattening a passing car!
The entire clip on YouTube (Badgers at approx.: 19:50)
https://youtu.be/qz_G4_zLJuo?t=1186
and complete/extended fragmentary footage of occupation and liberation scenes in the Groningen Archives:
https://www.filmbankgroningen.nl/arc...oningen%20tank
(WJM)

No.1 Badger. Badger Troop, Headquarters, 5th Canadian Armoured Brigade. 16 April 1945.
The same Ram Badger was photographed in Putten a few days earlier by the Canadian Film and Photographic unit. Notice the same torn-up front left mudguard [see above].
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No.2 Badger
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No.3 Badger
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No.4 Badger
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