This week has seen the 90th anniversary of the beginning of one of the most important battles in military history: the Battle of Cambrai. It is regarded by many as the first ‘modern’ battle in which large numbers of tanks, artillery, infantry and aircraft worked in close co-operation with each other for the first time.
We have written previously [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Tanks’
Tanks and the Battle of Cambrai
Posted in Memorials from the archive, tagged Tanks, WW1 on 23 November, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
More about memorial tanks
Posted in In the news, Memorials from the archive, Unusual memorials, tagged Tanks, WW1 on 29 August, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Following up on the piece we did about war memorial tanks earlier in the month, one of our volunteers has discovered the following interesting stories in the archives of The Times and The Illustrated London News.
At Guildford (Surrey) in 1919, a tank was to have been presented at a site selected in one of the main streets. Unfortunately it [...]
Memorial tanks
Posted in Memorials from the archive, Unusual memorials, tagged Tanks, WW1 on 3 August, 2007 | 2 Comments »
One of the more unusual types of memorial were decommissioned tanks, given to towns by the National War Savings Committee after the First World War as recognition for the community’s efforts in fundraising.
This article from the Tank Museum in Bovington has some fascinating photos of a tank being delivered to Bridlington in July 1919.
The tanks were not universally popular and [...]
