Dingo's in NW Europe

[Neil Ashley]

Singe

Thanks for the information.

The Reccy Corps did not exist at the time of Dunkirk and the Dingo was the only Scout Car in production at the time so they had no choice if a vehicle was required.

The Carrier Platoon is meant to be the main Reccy vehicle in an infantry battalion so any thing else is normally associated with liaison duties rather than true reconnaissance. Hence why for these subsidiary duties Humber Scout Cars, or Light Reconnaissance Cars (Humber and Morris) appear a lot more regularly in photographs.

Some of the assault Division destined for the first wave on D Day were also equipped to a different scale to other divisions.

It would be nice to see some more photographic evidence to stand along side the pictures of other vehicles in use but if clearly it does not exist. Obviously don't take as Gospel any captioned photograph without good supporting evidence.