Guardians

While I was in Vancouver, I happened to stumbled across these (almost literally, because I was head down trying not to get too wet):

A Ram II



And an M4 Sherman:






















These two tanks stand guard beside the Beatty Street Drill Hall, which the home of the British Columbia Regiment.
The plaque says that this tank isn't actually the battalion commander's tank. I suspect that they bodged together two completely different tanks to create this display tank. The turret and port side came from a tank that was hit many times by an MG. Even though there's some hits on the front of the turret, there's none on the front hull. It is possible that the turret was turned to face the MG and that would account for the hits on its front but not on the front hull.




Here's the plaque. You can see some of the hits pretty clearly.