British Light Armour & Vehicles

[Louis]

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[Louis]

Crew of a Staghound armoured car shelter from the sun beneath a parasol. Italy - July 1944.

 

[Louis]

British Bren Carrier on the ancient Roman ruins of the Great Colonnade at Palmyra in Syria, 1941.

 

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Some wrecked British army vehicles on the outskirts of Dunkirk beach, set on fire by British soldiers to prevent further use by the Germans, 1940.

 

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Rest moment on Bren carrier during Operation Market Garden.

 

[Rico]

Love this pic.

A French farmer driving a horse-drawn water cart waving his cap at the crew of a Light Tank Mark VI from 13/18 Royal Hussars, 1939.

 

[Louis]

An SAS (Special Air Service) Jeep in Gabes-Tozeur, Tunisia in 1943. The gunner has a .50 inch Browning while the driver is armed with a single Vickers ‘K’.

 

[Louis]

Colorized photo of Major Gen. G L Verney, enters Ghent, Belgium, in his Staghound armoured car, 8 Sept 1944.
Verney served as a tank brigade commander and went on to command 7th Armoured Div in Normandy in 1944.

 

[Gunner]

I like everyone is dressed up in their finest.
A happy day.

 

[Rico]

1940, Albury Heath. A Universal carrier Mark I with experimental armoured hood and Boys anti-tank rifle.

 

[Gunner]

Played with one of these in one of the CM.
Sure was a kicker of a runabout. Great AC killer.

 

[Gunner]

Armed with Bren guns and Boys antitank rifles, a squadron of Humber Mk III light armored cars of the British 29th Reconnaissance Squadron engage in a field exercise at Shanklin on the Isle of Wight in March 1942.

 

[Louis]

I think that from the air I could deceive the enemy.!
British Lanchester 6x4 armoured cars camouflaged as elephants. 1941.

 

[Gunner]

That's hard to believe that's even real.

 

[Rico]

That's hard to believe that's even real.

It worked... the Japanese died laughing.

 

[Louis]

British Universal Carrier destroyed by a mine, Normandy area, 1944.

 

[Louis]

British Valentine tank being unloaded at Suez, Egypt, circa 1942.

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[Louis]

(Colorized) Recharging inside a Valentine tank, somewhere on the Gazala Line, Libya, March 1942.

 

[Rico]

Mmmh... spacious.

 

[Gunner]

And they look so roomy from the outside. Well...maybe not so much.