The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 Australian attack. The tanks are both Mark IVs. The tank nearest the camera is a 'Male', armed with a 6 pounder gun, while the further tank is a female, armed with Lewis machine guns. Both tanks' tracks have 'grousers' or 'spuds' attached. There are removeable plates which bolt on to roughly every 6th track link to help spread the vehicles' ground pressure over a greater area. The tanks also have de-ditching rails fitted above their superstructure.
Tank officers leaving their horses at Jackdaw Switch, proceed to direct tanks in the operations before Zonnebeke. A tank (left) has soldiers standing near by and three horses and a soldier can be see
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
Snared by a tree trunk and subsequently put out of action by shellfire, this Mk IV Female tank assisted in the operations in the Ypres fighting in September. The tank has ben hit in multiple locations
Two tanks put out of action near Stirling Castle, in the Ypres sector during the attack on 20 September 1917. Taken while the fighting was continuing further forward, the photograph shows an unidentif
Two tanks put out of action near Stirling Castle, in the Ypres sector during the attack on 20 September 1917. Taken while the fighting was continuing further forward, the photograph shows an unidentif
NORTH NERANG, QLD. 1944-06-11 TO 1944-07-18. RACK FITTED ON THE FRONT OF A SHERMAN TANK FOR THE STOWAGE OF SPARE TRACKS AND GROUSERS. THIS TANK WAS USED IN THE WAR OFFICE TRIALS OF SHERMAN AND MATILDA
