Interesting that the photograph above claims to show the Pretoria Regiment which was the senior Armoured Regiment of the SA 6th Armoured Division in Italy. As the senior regiment, the circular squadron marking on the turret should be red (the Circle is for C Sqn). It seems a little light in colour to be red and is more likely Yellow which would make this tank from the junior regiment which for 6th AD would be the SA Special Service Brigade. For those interested, the middle regiment had blue markings and HQ units had a white diamond; A Sqn had a tri-Angle, and B sqn had a square (Box). (Armoured car units which had an extra "D" Sqn had a vertical solid wide bar).
The other way of checking is to look for the standard vehicle formation markings and number, but these are not on these particular vehicles. (The censor might have got to them which was not unusual for wartime photographs).
Oh the sadness of building tank dioramas for many years.
Last edited by Wensleydale; 8th Jul 2015 at 07:37.