recce_trooper

Hi Ian 'Gus' Daniells here. Although I joined the Forum on 2010 I have not been an active member but things have changed. I am ex 1st Royal Tank Regiment (1972 - 1999) having served/crewed on Saracen, Ferret Mk 1, 2 and Mk 5, CVR(T) Scorpion, Spartan and Sultan and finally Chieftain Mk10/Mk11 before becoming a shiny pants. This year I am going to Normandy to arrive in Arromanches on 7th June which was the same day as 1RTR did in 1944 and then follow the 1RTR route through Normandy until they started the great swan from Liseaux on the last day of August 1944. I will be doing it in a replica Jeep that all be auctioned off at the end of next years drive through Holland and Germany to Hamburg where they finished on VE Day with 7 Armoured Div/22nd Armoured Bde. So a bit of an adventure for an old man and it is covered in 1RTR Normandy Revisited 2014 where the build up by 1RTR is covered. Glad to be a member here where there is so much information on Mil Vehicles.