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Unique ID: 765 Added to Database: April 2009 Last Edited: April 2009 Type (ID): A27L Centaur (3290) Model (ID): Centaur IV (3298) Location Category (ID): La Brèche d’Hermanville (6010) Location (ID): Hermanville-sur-Mer (6010) Serial Number: Registration: “T185075” painted on nose and rear hull. Name: “SEAWOLF” painted on front plate. Other Identification: Collection Reference: Links: References: Associated Tanks: Location History: (see map) 1: Leyland Motors, Farington, Lancashire, North West England, Britain (Primary Centaur manufacturer) 2: La Brèche d’Hermanville, Hermanville-sur-Mer, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France (Current location) This Centaur is surrounded by a low chain fence. It was previously a dozer tank but was restored at Duxford, UK, using the turret from a Cavalier tank recovered from a range (source: tankbarrell via ANDG). A Churchill AVRE used to be on display at this location but is now at Duxford. There were plaques commemorating the Churchill and they are, rather confusingly, still displayed on a small brick monument behind the Centaur. One states “CHURCHILL AVRE REFURBISHED SEPTEMBER 1998 BY 6 HEADQUARTERS SQUADRON 22 ENGINEER REGIMENT”. The second states “AT 0730 HRS ON 6TH JUNE 1944, 70 SPECIALLY REDESIGNED CHURCHILL TANKS EQUIPPED WITH FASCINES, FLAILS, BANGALORE TORPEDOES AND BRIDGES LANDED FROM 10 LANDING CRAFT AND CLEARED THE BEACH OBSTACLES INTO A 200M WIDE SAFE LANE IN ORDER THAT THE ADVANCING TROOPS COULD LAND SAFELY ON THE BEACH. THIS CHURCHILL AVRE MK III NOW STANDS AS A MEMORIAL TO ALL THOSE WHO SERVED AND DIED ON THESE SHORES”.

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August 2007 1: Front right view Taken: 25 August 2007 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 1258 Added: 9 May 2009 Filename: 51CNV19_... Views: 229 Select/Has Priority: 4/0		2: Rear right view Taken: 25 August 2007 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 1259 Added: 9 May 2009 Filename: 51CNV22_... Views: 256 Select/Has Priority: 4/0

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