Oxford Diecast 76MWD007 Bedford MWD 2 Corps, 1/7th Middlesex Reg., France 1940

Recommended price £9.95   An Oxford Diecast 1:76 scale model of The Bedford MWD.  The MWD was a 15 cwt 4 x 2 general service vehicle which formed the backbone of British Army transportation during WWII. Built to carry 10 soldiers and all their equipment, the Bedford MWD had been introduced into the military in 1937. Here we see it as deployed by the 1/7^th Middlesex Regiment (The Duke of Cambridge's Own), a line infantry regiment which had been formed in 1881 with two regular, two militia and four territorial battalions. In 1938, one of these territorial battalions became the 1/7^th, deployed to France in the early hostilities in 1940