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Old 17-12-06, 22:48
Shane Lovell Shane Lovell is offline
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Default 2 pdr portee

Gentlemen

It is my view that what we see is a portee from one of the British Royal Horse Artillery units and is not Australian at all. My reason for this view is that to the best of my knowledge, 1st Anti-tank Regt, the organic anti-tank regt for 6 Aust Div was not actually involved in the Operation Compass battles.

The portee my belong to one of the Australian infantry brigades involved as each had an organic anti-tank company, however, all suffered from major equipment deficiencies, and at least later in 1941 it was not uncommon for them to be equiped with captured Italian guns. I think the likelihood of this picture being from one of the Brigade anti-tank companies is low.

Happy to discuss further.

Shane Lovell
Canberra, Australia
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