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Centurion


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Spotted the enclosed shot in a book this Tuesday. It looks like a MkI Female at Flers (or vicinity) with  "the British Army cheering behind" but it isn't Creme de Menth or Dinaken (wrong sex) and that doesn't look like a high street. Just to add confusion and muddle looking at it through my best magnifying glass it appears to be missing one of its tail wheels!. It must be pre Arras as it has the wheels. Anyone got any ideas? (the book itself is no help as the caption claims that this is Cambrai!!).

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Rhomboid


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The photo appears to be a still from Geoffrey Malins' "Battle of the Ancre/Advance of the Tanks" (IWM film 2043) which has been slightly colourized. The notes state that this sequence was filmed near Martinpuich on Oct. 22,1916, tank unidentified. The dates suggest the vehicle belongs to A,C or D Co. I have some clips of tanks (including this one) from this film on my hard drive, and can e-mail if you wish.

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I would guess at it being a D company tank as it has the tail wheel box. I can see 2 tail wheels however. The second wheel is just visible in the angle between the tracks and the tail wheel box. This picture looks like a still from a film, part of which is on a Discovery Channel DVD I have called "Extreme Machines: Tanks". The DVD only just covers WWI and seems more concerned with the first Gulf War but the WWI footage was just too good to pass up .



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Rhomboid wrote:

The photo appears to be a still from Geoffrey Malins' "Battle of the Ancre/Advance of the Tanks" (IWM film 2043) which has been slightly colourized. The notes state that this sequence was filmed near Martinpuich on Oct. 22,1916, tank unidentified. The dates suggest the vehicle belongs to A,C or D Co. I have some clips of tanks (including this one) from this film on my hard drive, and can e-mail if you wish.
If it's no trouble, I would like to see those clips. If they're large, the best address to send them to would be mls_hansenATtpg.com.au. Just replace the AT with @.

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