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Pozieres, France. A destroyed British Mark I tank belonging to C Company, Heavy Machine Gun Corps (later the Tank Corps) on the battlefield at Pozieres. It was one of seven vehicles assigned to the Canadian Second and Third Divisions for their attack on Courcelette and German positions to the south and east of the village on 15 September 1916. Of the seven tanks assigned to the attack on Courcelette, one broke down before the attack, three became bogged in German trenches. Only three reached Courcelette, and only one was in action after this attack. This was the first time that tanks were used on the Western Front. (Donor D. Stevenson)
Pozieres, France, 1917. The derelict hulk of a British tank on the Pozieres battlefield. This Mark I Male tank, C1, (Champagne), belonged to C Company, Heavy Machine Gun Corps, later to become the Tan
The skeleton of a British Mark I 'Male' tank on the former Pozieres battlefield. This photograph was taken in September 1917, when the desolation of the area a year earlier had been relieved by the ri
The derelict hulk of a British tank on the Pozieres battlefield. This Mark I Male tank, C1, (Champagne), belonged to C Company, Heavy Machine Gun Corps, later to become the Tank Corps. It was one of s
"A German tank captured by the 26th Australian battalion, at Monument Wood, near Villers-Bretonneux, in France, on July 14th, 1918, and subsequently salved for the Australian War Museum by the 5th Bri
An Australian soldier climbs on Mephisto, a German A7V tank which was disabled during an attack on British units at Monument Wood, south of Villers-Bretonneux, on 24 April 1918. After being bogged an
An Australian soldier climbs on Mephisto, a German A7V tank which was disabled during an attack on British units at Monument Wood, south of Villers-Bretonneux, on 24 April 1918. After being bogged an
