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to all Brits, 11/7 means 11th July
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There were and still are newspapers that used the US-style MONTH-DAY-YEAR format and during the war both would have been used. So the man in the street saw differing date formats on his newspapers for a start.
However today all three formats are now used:
DAY-MONTH-YEAR
MONTH-DAY-YEAR
YEAR-MONTH-DAY
I have to say that GM of Canada started being different, possibly deliberately or because they thought it was more correct, with the 1927 Chevrolet series A.A. whereas in the States it was AA. They then used full stops or periods as the Americans say until the war at least. This also applied to the Maple Leaf heavy Chevrolets based on Canadian GMC chassis. There was of course no US equivalents.
Going back to date codes it seems that when GM of Canada's subsidiary McKinnon Industries started producing their own castings in 1935 they continued with the same system as in the Flint foundry, namely A to L for January to December including I, plus 1 to 31 for the day and then 0 to 9 for the Calendar Year. However it would appear that during the war GM of Canada used the MONTH-DATE-YEAR format as did Canadian newspapers