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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
<p dir="ltr">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. </p> <p>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.</p>

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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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