Final photos (for now)

3 man group
L-R G Webb, Max Bacon, Eric Spears, date and location not known

Large group - Bishopstone, before Dieppe
Names not known

Hi Bob

Thanks for these photos. These and the others on 2 previous messages are now on the last page of the 3 Commando Gallery. Here is a link to that page

http://gallery.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/v/units/3/?g2_page=7

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Three more photos discovered recently. I suspect from the image quality that they were taken by an official photographer, but the prints don't carry any ID.

From my research the armoured vehicle appears to be an American M44 armoured utility vehicle. However, according to my research, they didn't come into service until June 1945. The location isn't known.

In the first of the two photos on the M44 I think the commando in the beret on the left may be my Dad. Pvt Bob Cubitt

The commandos on the Sherman are unknown.

The scenery in the bottom picture looks very 'alpine' to me.

It does, but it could also be the Ardennes or the Harz Mountains, which look very similar. There are even hills like that in the south of Holland, around a town called Valkenburg (known jokingly by the locals as the Dutch Alps). When I was in the RAF I lived quite close by and there is something of a similarity. The Scottish soldier in the foreground of one of the photos suggest a British area of operations.

Yes, the US forces were in the south and the mountains and the British and Canadians were further north. I defer to your greater knowledge of European topography.

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Hi,
I think your last three photos may have been taken in Austria after 1949.

The reason I say this is going by the markings on the US and British vehicles.

The 2 numbers 2 letters 2 number vehicle registration number did not come into use until 1949.

The 57 over what is probably a red/blue square is for a Royal Artillery Anti-Tank Unit in an Infantry Division.

The vehicle is a CT20 Oxford Carrier used for towing ether the 6pdr or 17 pdr anti-tank gun.

If I have identified the US vehicles correctly then the vehicles are from the 4th Armoured Cavalry Regiment or the 4th Constabulary Regiment based in Austria.

The markings on the US M 24 Chaffee tank and the M 75 APC.

TC triangle = Armoured Training Centre.
4 triangle CR = 4th Armoured Cavalry Regiment.
B 15 B17 = Squadron/Company/Platoon and vehicle number in that unit.

Regards

Danny