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58711: Official German Cards showing wrecked British Tanks

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posted on 2024-02-23, 23:00 authored by Great War Archive Project Team

Photograph postcards of wrecked British tanks: a Mark IV 'Female' tank (armed with machine guns); German staff officers with five wrecked tanks in background; two wrecked Mark IVs, one 'Male' (armed with machine guns and two 6pdr guns); a wrecked Mark IV 'Female' with German soldiers to front; a ditched Mark IV 'Male' with German staff officers to front. Photographs taken at Cambrai and possibly the 'Tank Graveyard' along the Menin Road.

Part of the photograph and scrap album of Revd. Leonard Thomas Pearson, Army Chaplain's Department (attached No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station), discovered in a skip and deposited with the Bodlian Library. Revd. Pearson was interviewed by Lyn Macdonald for her book 'The Roses of No Man's Land', which contains two extracts and a photograph.

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Identifier

9058.cpd| 4063.jpg|GWA_2451_ricesruinedtank.jpg 4064.jpg|GWA_2452_ricesruinedtank2.jpg 4065.jpg|GWA_2453_riceruinedtank3.jpg 4066.jpg|GWA_2454_ricewreckedtank.jpg 4067.jpg|GWA_2455_ricedestroyedtank.jpg

Subject

Unknown

Date

1917

Date Created

01/01/1917

Temporal Coverage

31/12/1917

Source

Multiple

Medium

Photographic paper

Type

Photograph

Pages

1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Number of Pages

5

Contributor

Richard Marshall | Stuart Lee | P Vainker

Rights

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor

Publisher

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford

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