51271: Tanks and barbed wire

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posted on 2024-05-09, 09:49 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

Mark 1 'Female' tank crossing a low barbed wire entaglement. Tank is numbered 'A17' and named 'Oh I Say!'. A staged photograph showing the ability of tanks to cross barbed wire.

History

Identifier

1258.mpg | CXTIWMFILMvanc4.mpg

Subject

Transport | Trench | Western Front | Ypres

Creator

War Office

Date

12th November, 1916

Temporal Date

12/11/1916

Spatial

Somme

Medium

VHS copy of original film

Type

Footage

Contributor

Everett Sharp

Rights

The Imperial War Museum

Collection ID

The Battle of the Ancre and the Advance of the Tanks, Part 1, Caption 17 | The Battle of the Ancre and the Advance of the Tanks, Part 3, Caption 33

Repository Name

Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive

Repository Address

Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, London, SE1 6HZ, UK

Publisher

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

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Keywords

First World War Poetry Digital Archive World War One Footage Transport Trench Western Front Ypres

Licence

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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