Canadian Piper on top of a tank

[centurion]

Just found this

"The Tank "Dominion" led the tanks into action on this sectior with the piper of a Manitoba unit sitting astride the - top. Skirling hi pibroch, he came, through unscathed, but another piper, who piped his battalion into action, was killed." Poverty Bay Herald > 24 Mahuru 1918

Could we be talking about two different pipers here?

[Khaki]

QUOTE (Sidearm @ May 22 2010, 11:02 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I remain sceptical. I think the tank you're referring to in post #16 was a Mark II.

I suspect this is what you are thinking of. I enclose an extract from a film clip that claims to be of the Battle of Arras but can't be as it includes shots of MkIVs. I also include a larger still shot of the same guy painting the same tank. It was originally captioned 'Canadian soldier painting his tank before the Battle of Amiens' which seems equally unlikely. I can't make out the name but it isn't Toronto. However there is a shot (see my previous post) of a Mk V at Amiens with a maple leaf and Toronto on the front plate and I don't think there was a 20th Battalion involved! I posted a small clip - the larger photo shows the tank passing Canadian soldiers. So we know that there seems to have been a custom of painting Maple leaves and a name on the front of tanks associated with Canadian action which makes Dominion much more likely.

Looking through some old posts, and I noticed in the larger photo, 'is the subject painting the tank actually wearing a 'hate belt' with some badges showing beneath what appears to be a stable belt??

khaki

[Guest Hughbeast]

If nobody else has mentioned it yet there's a reference to this particular incident in Livesay's book "Canada's Hundred Days" on page 28, about halfway down. It's on page 50 of my pdf but may be entriely different on another reader.

https://ia700406.us.archive.org/19/items/canada100days00liveuoft/canada100days00liveuoft.pdf