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Title: Dorchester Armored Command Vehicles #3 & #5?
Post by: War In 15MM on July 20, 2021, 04:15:56 AM
I have been painting vehicles for my early North Africa campaign, and I have noticed that two of the Dorchester armored command vehicles painted in the Caunter Scheme have large white numbers on them.  One has a large white 3.  The other has a large white 5.  Can someone tell me the name of the commanders whose vehicles these are?  Thank you.
Title: Re: Dorchester Armored Command Vehicles #3 & #5?
Post by: Etranger on July 20, 2021, 11:06:36 AM
They belonged to Rommel!



However he wasn't the original owner. https://www.perthmilitarymodelling.com/reviews/vehicles/afvclub/af35227.html has some details on those particular machines.
Title: Re: Dorchester Armored Command Vehicles #3 & #5?
Post by: War In 15MM on July 20, 2021, 04:27:20 PM
Thank you.  I am aware that the Germans captured three Dorchesters in North Africa.  Numbers 3 and 5 are probably two of them, but whose Dorchesters were they before Rommel?  I think the British also numbered a Dorchester with a large white 1 and another with a large white 2.  What British commander or unit were those linked to?
Title: Re: Dorchester Armored Command Vehicles #3 & #5?
Post by: War In 15MM on July 20, 2021, 06:15:56 PM
I now for certain that the Dorchester with the large white 2 is one of the three captured by the Germans in North Africa.  I believe that 3 and 5 are the other two captured by the Germans.  Unfortunately, I have no information as to what other Dochesters that remained in British service in North Africa carried large white singlel digit numbers.  It's looking more like I will be learning my British Dorchesters without that numbering system.
 
Title: Re: Dorchester Armored Command Vehicles #3 & #5?
Post by: fred on July 20, 2021, 09:47:30 PM
The link above says that the Dorchesters with the large white numbers were from the 2nd Armoured Division (towards the bottom in the decals section)
Title: Re: Dorchester Armored Command Vehicles #3 & #5?
Post by: War In 15MM on July 21, 2021, 01:50:05 AM
Fred, thank you for pulling me back to that.  It appears that the three Dorchesters that were captured are No. 1,  No. 2 (I've seen a photo of it with the 2 and a German cross) and  No. 3.  That makes since and the info you took me back to shows that No. 5 was not captured.  This is really good.  Thank you very much.