Armour in Canada: Ram Tank

Ram tank

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3554045)

Ram Mk. I armed with the early 2-pounder gun in 1941  This was the first of these tanks built at the Montreal Locomotive works.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 4232758)

Canadian-built Ram II tanks in service at Camp Borden, Ontario, ca. 1943.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 2185072)

Ram Mk. 1 tank, Canadian 14 cent stamp, 1943.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 4232744)

Ram tank crew on exercise ca 1943.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3225449)

LdSH Ram tanks on the range, 20 April 1943.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3525210)

Ram I tank crew, 5th Canadian Armoured Division, Aldershot, England, 24 Dec 1942.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3209676)

Lieutenant Dave Mallett instructing troopers of The South Alberta Regiment about the maintenance of Ram tanks, England, 16 April 1943.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 4232743)

Ram II tanks armed with 6-pounder guns on maneuvers, ca 1942.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3587207)

Ram II tank with 6-pounder gun, marked No. 4, Canadian Armoured Corps Training Establishment, Camp Borden, Ontario, 7 July 1943.  (Lt Ken Bell)

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 4232610)

Ram II tanks, Camp Borden.  

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 4232757)

Ram II tanks armed with a Mk. V 6-pounder gun mounted in the Mk. II mantlet, Camp Borden, Ontario.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 4232617)

Ram II tanks, Camp Borden.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 4232753)

Ram II tanks, Camp Borden.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, WRC-3176)

Ram II tanks on maneuvers, ca. 1943.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3587045)

Ram II on maneuvers in the UK, 22 Dec 1942.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 4233146)

Ram II tanks on manouevres in the UK, ca. 1943.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3191555)

Sherman V tanks of the South Alberta Regiment (SAR) and M5A1 Stuart tanks of the 5th Canadian Armoured Division, a Ram II Observation (OP) tank with false wooden gun, Willys jeeps, Canadian Military Pattern (CMP) trucks and a Humber armoured car in the centre, laagered in the village square of Bergen-op-Zoom in the Netherlands, 31 Oct 1944.

(DND Photo via Anthony Seward)

Ram OP in Normandy.  84 of these were manufactured at the very end of Ram production.  It was a Ram II fitted with a dummy gun in place and two No. 19 Wireless sets inside.  These tanks accompanied the Sexton S.P. gun regiments as mobile observation posts for their FOOs.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3192538)

A woman employee checks the interior of a Ram Cruiser tank, Montreal Locomotive Works, 1942.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3195948)

Workmen assemble a Ram Cruiser tank at the Montreal locomotive works, 1942.

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