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drakegoodman


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G'day gentlemen,

 

Hoping to ID this particular tank by the partial numbers --62 to the right of the sponson. No clues on the reverse either, just a letter from a French soldier to his wife and daughter.

 

"Cher Francine et Claudine,


j'ai recu votre lettre du 20 avec le mandat de 10 dont je vous remercie . Je suis en bonne santé et toujours au repos ce qui me plait le plus.Je t'envoi la photo d'un Tank Anglaise, un de ceux qui ont marché avec nous dans la Somme. J'espere que ca t'interressera. Rien autre de neuf ci ce n'est que je suis cete (?) au Bon (battallion ) et que nous avons la fouragère.


Je vous embrasse tous deux bien des fois Pierre 12 BCA 1re Cie"

 


French postcard - British MkIV (male) tank by drakegoodman, on Flickr



-- Edited by PDA on Wednesday 16th of January 2013 11:48:20 PM

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Could the number also be -62- ? There's a smudge after the "2" that might be an obscured number (or there's a smudge on my contact lenses!).



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Zoomed, corrected, converted ... looks like "62" (only) to me:

MkIVDetail2.gif



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drakegoodman


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I thought there might be some numbers hiding behind that open hatch door.

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drakegoodman wrote:

I thought there might be some numbers hiding behind that open hatch door.

Yes, there would be. The number had 4 digits in it, so it would be either XX62 or X62X.



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elbavaro


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For me .... it might be "762"?

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elbavaro wrote:

For me .... it might be "762"?

Could be, but I think the shattered sponson door is creating the illusion of a "7" - I don't think the numbers before the "6" can be seen.

 

If you follow drakegoodman's link to his flickr pages there is the option to see the full size photo, and it is much clearer. See attached.



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Gwyn Evans


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I agree with PDA that the numbers before the 6 can't be seen, but the first must be a 9 because this is a Mark V, so no other first digit is possible. If this is a Male then the second digit must be either a 0 or a 1. If there's a Female sponson on the other side then this is a Composite. If it's a Composite then it might have been converted from a Male or a Female, so the second digit must be a 0, 1, 2 or 3. I have a feeling that this is 9162 before it was converted to a Composite but I need to study the photo a bit more and I don't have time tonight. (9162 was hit and knocked out on 10 August 1918 with only one member of the crew surviving).

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-- Edited by Gwyn Evans on Thursday 17th of January 2013 11:22:04 PM

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The number 762 relates to a MKI tank.  This is certainly not a MKI so the number has to be XX62 or X762

 

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