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Hero

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Hi Guys

I found these photos on a Canadian museum website, my apologies if they have been discussed already.

Pauleo-2973.jpg

eo-2285.jpg



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2380 is Damon II at Poelcappelle.
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Still there until the Germans scrapped it in 1939!

599 is a MkII, destroyed 9/4/17.

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Talking of which:

http://p1917a.blogspot.co.uk/



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Excellent photo of Damon II. I have seen it before but not this clearly. You can see the large outlined crew numbers that D Battalion were using at this time.

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Did 599 have a name ?

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No name Known as far I know, only the number : C39.

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The photo above of the MkII female is usually captioned as having been taken at Vimy Ridge, which suggests that it is tank 598, D43 of 12 Co., D Bn., which supported the Canadian assault on 9/4/17. Tank 599 of 8 Co., C Bn. was knocked out near The Harp at Tilloy, south of the Scarpe River on April 9.

Tank 598 was destroyed by shellfire at the 2nd battle of Bullecourt on 3/5/17. I think that the photo below shows the wreck.



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