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Old 24-05-03, 05:11
Bruce Parker (RIP) Bruce Parker (RIP) is offline
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Default Royal Canadian Dragoons markings

I'm looking for confirmation of the unit sign worn on RCD vehicles while they were the armoured car regiment for the 1st Canadian Corps cira 1943-44. Unit serial '44' on the armoured green over blue is given as official. I contrast this with two wartime paintings by Canadian war artist E. J. Hughes who shows the number '47' on black (and white over blue for an attached Signal Corps vehicle) used with the 1st Corp flash. 47 on black was used by the RCD's earlier while attached to the 5th Canadian Armoured Division. Given that Hughes paintings are accurate to the number of bolts he depicts on a particular subject, was he painting what he saw? One photograph of a Fox armoured car belonging to the RCD's taken in England, that looks suspiciously like the inspiration for one of Hughes' paintings, unfortunatly has a shadow or censor smear over the unit sign.
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