No, not my retirement! I wondered if anyone could tell me when the British medium and heavy tanks of Great War vintage (i.e Marks I, II, III, IV, V, V*, V**, VIII and IX, and Mediums A, B and C) were retired from British tank battalions?? I know that a few soldiered on in specialist schools and experimenta...
Mr. Allingham, last survivor of the Battle of Jutland, the last surviving member of the RNAS, and the last surviving founding member of the RAF, celebrates his 111th birthday tomorrow, June 6th. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Allingham
Hello there, I got something I don't understand about 3 photos, that are left from my Great-Grandfather. he served in WW1 for the whole 5 years and because the man died before I was born, I never had the chance, to get some information by himself. My Mother and Grandmother don't know much, the only thing...
I see that the Great War Forum appears to have collapsed with bandwidth problems - been like it all day. Hopes its not permanent - anyone know anything?
I know some people here access the internet through public internet cafe's, and those computers have filters on them that will block anyone trying to look up anything with /that/ word in it - so don't use it, call them Crooked Crosses or something like that.
I noticed that in several pictures of th...
Hello, Last Saturday, I was at the Saumur tank museum and I took a lot of pictures. Amongst them, some of the FT17 actually displayed. I took a lot of pictures of the tracks, with measurements. I don't remember who ask for the tracks dimension, let me know. I think I have something close to complete. I als...
I was going through my files and came across a group of photos of the WW1 vehicular camouflage that I saw on the old Marx tin toys. Remember those schemes, with the bright colors separated by thick black outlines? I often wondered if any of these paint jobs actually got over to Europe during the war. I hav...
Hello everyone For over ten years now, I am researching on A7V tank 540. ?I'm currently building this tank in 1/25. This vehicle is documented in several photos, taken in October 1918, somewhere between Avesnes-le-Sec and Trith St.Leger in France. There is one well known photo of 540 together with a...
This is a very interesting, apparently UK-based site on Central Powers uniforms, mostly German colonial but also showing German/Ottoman, A-H naval in the Far East, German naval units on the Western front, and (a new one on me) A-H artillery at Gallipoli. Excellent. http://www.germancolonialun...
Does anyone have this edition of "Tankette", (with 1/76 drawings of an Austin 2-3 ton lorry)? Apart from the photograph in "War Cars", and two drawings, I haven't been able to find any information. Wheelbase and track would be useful too.....
Hi all, Being interested in scratch building a Mk IV male or female, can I copy the details of the survivors in Brussels, Aberdeen or Australia? The reason I ask is that during the restoration process many details or modifications can be added that were not part of the original tank in its service life....
Hi ? I've not been here for a while but I thought I would post the link Ive just seen over at ML?? its a Russian site but scroll down for the pictures. http://pilot.strizhi.info/2007/03/21/3060 ? Hope this is news ????????????????????????????? Paul
Forget most of my previous posting. Got it! The end of the Western Front was at Pfetterhouse, a small village about 18 miles south-east of Belfort. The Swiss frontier post on the D10 to the south-west of the village marks the end of the line.?The trenches just stopped at a barbed wire fence. Enclosed is...
Hello! Are there any ideas how I can find the exact place where the Western Front met the Swiss border during the Great War? Any help is much appreciated! Thomas
Hello, I am looking for a good drawing of "Hedi" (3 or more views). As far as I know, there is one in the book "The German A7V Tank and the Captured British Mark IV Tanks of World War I". I would like to buy this book, but the cheapest one that I found is at 180US$ !!! Anybody has an other s...
I note that we appear to have had acouple of 'anonymous' postings recently that cannot be accessed! They show up on the main page as "latest posting" but do not appear in the thread itself or in 'recent postings'. Is this just yet another glitch or something more sinister?
After reading A Company of Tanks?I wondered whether it would be worth having a list of links to editions?of?WWI books that are out of print or otherwise unobtainable and legally available as either a pdf download,?text/HTML version, or other format. As a starter the AWM has C.E.W. Bean's "Off...
The wonderful Youtube has these clips of Peter Jackson's Mk IV taking part in a tremendous WWI display in New Zealand, together with a Rolls-Royce A/C, some (unseen) German ordnance, and lots of WWI aircraft. For such an impressive gathering I'm surprised there hasn't been more (and better) footag...
Does anyone have access to a copy of Equipment Regulations, Part 1, 1912?? If so, could they let me have a scan or photocopy of Appendix XX which apparently deals with the marking of British Army vehicles? This is likely to deal with horse-drawn vehicles rather than MT but would be of interest to me as th...
Came across a magazine about the educational a/v industry, and was pleased to see that the IWM has remastered the 1916 film The Battle of the Somme. They say it will be available on DVD in the near future. This is what the new version looks like:
There is a photo at the AWM (Photo No. C04889) showing a Mk IV supply tank. As far as I can make out, its WD number is 6043. Does anyone know whether 6043 was in fact a supply tank or the actual WD number of this tank? Thanks in advance.
Hi All, I seem to be getting a reaccuring problem with some images copied to my hard drive, I think mostly from this site, usually WW1 Pics of Tanks..... The problem is my operating system identify a possible hazard and shuts down the explorer window, usually a file with a large number of pictures in it....
