History

[Mike K]

Just a short story .

Sometimes you come across a message left over from WW2 ..on your treasured gem of a CMP.

In my case , I found the following scratched into the C8 dash panel :

J.S. Hunter VX65738

Well, here's the guy .. 4th from left lower row .

He was a gun operator in the 2/4 Armoured regiment , wounded in action on Bouganville.

I wrote to him around ten years ago... he lives up near Ballarat .. or he did then. He replied with a short note saying he didn't recall the 'vandalism' of the C8 , as he put it .He did say that it probably happened up at Bandiana where his unit was awaiting demob .. he said they were so bored there .

Mike