03EB24 — Chieftain Archive

Notes

Confirmed survivor at BATUS, British Army Training Unit Suffield, Alberta, Canada. Previously served with 4/7th Royal Dragoon Guards before transfer to BATUS November 1990. Remained at BATUS after end of active service. Moved indoors to the BATUS Museum on site on 30 September 2025. Despite cast flag Y in Merlin, the vehicle survived and is now a permanent museum exhibit at BATUS. Particularly noteworthy as a surviving vehicle at the same site where several of its contemporaries were destroyed as hard targets.

ⓘ

Data source: Service history and last known location are sourced from the British Army Merlin Archive, the official vehicle inventory system covering records up to 2012 when the archive was declassified. Survival status has been assessed from the last recorded unit — vehicles may have changed hands, been restored, or been scrapped since then. If you have current information about this vehicle, please submit a correction.

Photographs

+ Submit a Photo

No photographs on record for this vehicle.

Be the first to submit a photo

Service History

Movement records from the British Army Merlin Archive

Date unknown

2 ARMY DEL SQN (VEH STOCK)

19 Jan 1987

4/7 DG Receipt: 30 Jan 1987

30 Mar 1990

2 ARMY DEL SQN (VEH STOCK) Receipt: 11 Apr 1990

25 Nov 1990

BATUS QM(T) Receipt: 23 Jan 1991

09 Oct 1992

BATUS QM(T) Receipt: 09 Oct 1992

Know something we don't?

If you have information about this vehicle's current status, location or condition that differs from what we show, please submit a correction.

Submit a Correction →