An idea. I have an original shot of the first photograph shown, with the following caption at the back :
" Souvenir de l'AS, janvier 1919 " (AS = artillerie d'assaut, French Tank Corps, January 1919).
Although the soldiers are obviously Americans, there may be a serious possibility that the tank is one of the 100 or so Mk V Star delivered to France at the end of the war. The tanks on the background are FTs, and the soldier with leather jacket and a moustache is undoubtedly French.
I have other photos from this series of images: One shows an FT and an FT communications vehicle. The information from the back of your image sheds some interesting light on 9941!
Although the soldiers are obviously Americans, there may be a serious possibility that the tank is one of the 100 or so Mk V Star delivered to France at the end of the war. The tanks on the background are FTs, and the soldier with leather jacket and a moustache is undoubtedly French.
François,
It just occurred to me that the marking on the door can help us identify this tank as possibly U.S. piloted. On the door, stencilled in black letters on a white bar is, "KEY No 219".
Painting the key set number on the doors seems to have been started by U.S. troops after the Armistice. I have yet to find the order specifying this, but I see it on images of Mark Vs and V*s taken after the Armistice.
Just a thought...do you (or anyone else) know any details about the order to paint key numbers on the doors?
