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Bodlosh


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I have found some photos of Mark V's in Estonian service... if someone interested...

Six Mk V Composite heavy tanks were sent to Estonia in 1919 from the UK. They were named "Brown Bear", "Brown Bear II", "Captain Cromie", "Deliverance", "First Aid" and "White Soldier". Estonians transfered and renamed 5 of them (Päälik, Rae, Uku, Wahtula, Waldaja) - I dont know what happened with the sixth.. The Estonian names do not relate to the English ones listed above.

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Hello :)
Very tasty pictures , I thank - Andy

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Mark Hansen


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Nice shots there, Bodlosh. A few there I haven't seen before.

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I found some Estonian site about their vehicles (including those Mk V's): www.eag.unicweb.ee/ewarmee.html
I will add also one new photo of Wahtula

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Do you know where the names are from? I tried Googling and a Wikipedia search and the best I could come up with was Uku or Ukko being a Finnish sky god, somewhat similar to Thor, which may or may not be right.

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Hello :)


You have can good pictures of this tank from Archangelsk ????


Best regards -Andrzej


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v116/bigtank/ab.jpg



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Bodlosh


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I tried to translate those names...
Waldaja means occupant, possessor or proprietor
Rae means berserk
Hanni seems to be Estonian first name
words päälik and wahtula are used at some Estonian sites, but I really dont understand a word...

I also found a photo of some Mark V Female near Tallinn in 1941.. note that those machine guns are Maxims..

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Thanks for that, Bodlosh. Maybe someone else knows the last two.

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Has any one spotted that whilst all four shots of Waldaja are of the port side but two show a male sponson and two a female. Now whilst these tanks were composite (hermaphrodite) one would expect sponsons not to switch sides on the same tank! One possibility is that at some time there was a swop round to convert all tanks back to male or female. Any ideas?

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i can only see two shots of waldaja. both show a male sponson on the left

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Peccavi - I got the W's mixed up

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