The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Depicts an image of a British Mark IV 'male' tank resting in a field. The Mark IV male tanks carried 6-pounder guns, in contrast to the 'female' tanks which carried Lewis guns. There was one male to every three female tank. The role of the female tanks was to protect the male tanks while the males attacked enemy fortifications. The male tanks had more punch and were capable of knocking out a pill-box.
View of six of eight Mark IV tanks stranded tanks at Jackdaw Switch, near Clapham Junction, in the Ypres Salient, put out of action by shellfire or swamped in the mud during the attack on 20 September
Officers of the Tank Corps at Jackdaw Switch, near Chateau Wood (centre, background), in the Ypres sector, consulting their maps as to the course their tanks (right) are to take in furthering the Aust
A knocked-out Mark I Male tank on the Somme. Mark I and Mark II Male tanks were armed with two long barrelled Hotchkiss two 6 pounder guns, while female tanks had machine guns. Later 'Male' tankes we
A mark IV Female tank which has been named 'Lady Wingate'. Note that the Lewis machine guns have been removed from the sponsons of this vehicle.
A battle damaged British Mark 1 female tank, with rear external steering mechanism and sponsons on the side, at Flers, on the Western Front. The tank is resting in a war damaged landscape with a numbe
Somme, France. May 1918. Derelict British Army Mark IV tanks. The tank in the foreground, No 4056, is a Mark IV Male. The tank had been unable to cross Brie Bridge during the German advance, and was
