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Here we see two Scout Carriers of the 51st Highland Light Division on 19 March 1940. From this angle we get a good view of the rear crewman's enclosed position on the right-rear of the Scout Carrier, designed to allow him to operate his machine gun from the vehicle.
In the background is a column of Light Tank Mk VIs of the 1st Fife and Forfar Yeomanry.
© IWM (F 3182)
Bren Gun Carrier – Britain’s Universal War Machine, Robert Jackson.
A look at one of the most numerous tracked vehicles in British service during the Second World War, originally designed to carry machine guns to the location where they were needed, but soon adapted to fulfil a much wider range of functions. Found wherever British and Commonwealth forces fought during the Second World War, this was one of the most flexibly vehicles in British service
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