Militaria

​World War I Tanks

David Fletcher of the Tank Museum, Bovington has kindly supplied these images of World War I tanks, which are similar to those John Rimmer and his Battalion would have operated.

  
The photo above shows I 58 being towed away by
a German traction engine after being destroyed at Cambrai               

C14 was captured at Cambrai. Here it is being loaded on to a railway
wagon before being taken to the German workshops at Charleroi

A MK IV "male" with four of its eight crew.
The tank is undergoing maintenance
before being used in battle.    
 
A MK IV female (left) and male(right) being demonstrated to the King
The "male" tank has two cannons as well as two machine guns.

A MK IV tank rears up over a trench.

MK IV "female" tank. One of the tank's machine guns
and the escape hatches underneath it can be clearly seen.  
The soldier on the right is a tank crewman. 

The photo above shows a MK IV "female" tank.
This one was from "F" Battalion but C47
would have been identical.

 The photo above shows British tanks waiting to be transported to the Front for the Battle of Cambrai. "Cynic" is on the right is a "C" Battalion tank. All the tanks carry fascines (bundles of sticks) for filling German trenches.

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