Comet Tank-20ZR65- Sek Kong 1957-58.

Bryan Panter
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Comet Tank-20ZR65- Sek Kong 1957-58.

Queens Birthday Parade Kowloon 1958.

Date picture taken
21 Apr 1958
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Have recently been informed that this tank reg. 20ZR65 in Apr. 1945 while with 3 R.T.R. was 1 of a troop of Comet Tanks that knocked out a German Tiger tank at a bridgehead over the River Aller near the town of Essel in Germany. All the Comet Tanks at Sek Kong were scrapped in 1959 and replaced by Centurion Tanks, is there anyone out there that knows what happened to the Comets?

The saluting dais was normally outside the Club de Recreio on Gascoigne Road. Guess this section of road was near the USRC.

Thanks Moddsey.....confirming my memories of 60 years ago.Yes I was with my parents by Club Recreio opp USRC watching what was quite an impressive display of hardware!

Some of the facts in the description of the tank from B squadron of the comet tank 20ZR65 in Hong Kong in 1958 are not correct.  B squadron never led the regiment, it was led by A squadron the lead tank was from 4troop, call sign 4alpha no 16zr55.
I was in the regiment in 1957/1959 and I drove the lead tank on the Queen’s birthday parade in 1958.  When I left in 1959 before the Centurians arrived I handed my tank over to a younger man who drove it as the lead tank in 1959. I can safely claim to be the oldest driver still alive in 2026 at 88 years old to have driven a tank on the parade before they were withdrawn from service.



 

 in answer to the question what happened to the tanks, they were were cut up on the air strip at Kam Tin that was adjacent to Shek Kong tank park