2nd Armoured Battalion Irish Guards, GAD, Tank Casualties, 1945 Regiment: 2nd Battalion Irish Guards Serial No.: F.9. Tank: Mark: VI W.D. No.: 224177 Date: 2 Apr 1945 Photo No.: 42 Figure Nos.: 35, 37 2nd Armoured Battalion Irish Guards, GAD, Tank Casualties, 1945 Range: Not Known Cause of Damage: H.C. penetration. Fire Damage: Burnt out Other tanks involved in same incident: F.8. & F.10. Circumstances: Near Gildenhaus. Turret found at 12 o’clock. Same incident as Tanks F.8. and F.10. Position of Hit: Penetration 40 mm. diameter through plate holding 0.30” Browning mounting on right hand side turret. Course & Effect of Projectiles: The jet went to penetrate side wall of turret, hole 30 mm. diameter, and took a chip out of the front edge of the Commander’s hatch. It wounded the Commander and Gunner. Crew compartment burnt out, engine not burnt. Remarks: Tank seen. Information from R.M.O. and by post from tank Commander. Fate of Crew: Driver and Co-Driver: Unhurt. Commander: Wounded. Wound of preauricular region with fracture of ascending ramus of left mandible and zygomatic arch. VIIth nerve palsy. X-rays show no F.B’s. Still in hospital 24 September 1945. Final Category Not Known. Operator: Wounded. Head, fractured skull and wound of forehead requiring skin graft. Discharged hospital to ... [illegible due to type written on bottom edge of page.]
