Types of vehicles used in a Reconnaisance Regiment

[John McGillivray]

Originally Posted by randall klein

Hi Mark,

Thank you for this.
It appears that the makeup of a regular recce regiment, IE 17th Duke Of York's Royal Canadian Hussars was vastly different than the South Alberta Regiment?
Your thoughts?

Randy

This site will give you the general make up of the three types of Reconnaissance regiments.

1- Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment (for armoured divisions)
2- Armoured Car Regiment (for corps)
3- Reconnaissance Regiment (for infantry divisions)

http://truxmodels.co.uk/page35.html

Note that Canadian units sometimes differed from the British norm.

[maple_leaf_eh]

That TRUX link has some very interesting reading. A blend of formal ORBATS, practical experience, war stories and technical variations. There is a description of use of 'Loyd' (sic) carriers and a comment on when they were eventually replaced by Universal carriers. If you do a Ctrl > F search to find the words family or families. Some interesting commentary on the social aspects of British regimental classes. Yes, even with the the armoured corps is a class structures.

[randall klein]

Originally Posted by maple_leaf_eh

That TRUX link has some very interesting reading. A blend of formal ORBATS, practical experience, war stories and technical variations. There is a description of use of 'Loyd' (sic) carriers and a comment on when they were eventually replaced by Universal carriers. If you do a Ctrl > F search to find the words family or families. Some interesting commentary on the social aspects of British regimental classes. Yes, even with the the armoured corps is a class structures.

Terry,
Wow, huge detail on the composition of Recce Regiments.
Thanks for this.

[randall klein]

Hi Mark,
Thanks for the link. Huge detail on Recce Regiments.

Randy