HELP - Holland Confirmation?
 

Hello All. I suspect that this photo was taken in Holland (late 1945 or early 1946). Can anyone help with the significance of the "sign" that it leaning at the base of the photo? Many thanks for any thoughts and/or comments you might have.
Duncan

For starters I have tried to estimate how many letters or numbers are obscured by his leg! The small xxx's indicate what I think has been obscured:

JA73xxx [more numerals?]
COOKxxxx [a surname? a noun eg COOKSETS?]
TRIPxxxxx [a noun eg TRIPFLARES?]
BAxNxxxxx6xxxx [a place name/address?]

And his large bonnet badge - it doesn't look like A&SH to me, so could be Canadian?

Comments or better ideas please! Mike

Hello Mike. Thank you for your reply, and for taking the time to "decipher" the "sign". The soldier in this photograph IS a Canadian: with the Lorne Scots.

Duncan

So we really need an expert on Canadian Army nomenclature and signing to give an opinion on this. Mike

Hi Duncan

Doesn't look like a sign to me. Looks like the tailgate of a jeep or small truck. Or a crate or "battle box of some sort.

Can I ask that on another Forum?

regards
Darrell

Hi Darrell. Thank you for your feedback, I, too, thought that it might be a tailgate, as well (hence, my "sign" in quotation marks). And, yes, by all means feel free to share this with any other forum(s) that might yield results to my queries. Many thanks for your efforts.

Duncan

Thank you, again, Mike for your input. It is greatly appreciated.

Duncan

Just a thought.

Number 14 on yellow disc, Bridge Classification for a vehicle.
J2, Tac sign Jig 2, the second Signals vehicle of a sub unit, (possibly line laying).
JA73, two thirds of the vehicle registration.
The incomplete words below JA73 could be places they have fought through along their route to where ever it is now.
Indistinct numbers on the far right unit code.

Marc

I think its too small to be part of a 14 ton vehicle.

Its probably Cookers, Triple, B.....

ZA is a prefix for signals supplies not sure about JA?

Rob

Cooker field triplex

Class 14 would indicate a 10 ton vehicle.

Marc :)

So this would not connect with the Gunner sign Jig 2. I also felt that the disc for the bridge plate was too small. A tailgate did cross my mind though. Mike

There was a Cooker, Field, Triplex, No 4 - in UK military use from WW2 until quite recently (Information from an Army Stoves forum!)

What makes you think this photo was taken in Holland?
The building does not look dutch at all imo, it looks more southern like Belgium, France or Italy.

Can't help with the sign, sorry.


regards,

Albert.

The Hydra burner trench cooker used folding metal frames that you put end to end, through which the flame fired, I'm trying to remember if they had 3 openings each?

Rob

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBaVaS0jsbM