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Description: | Fragment of a Canadian film on tanks on the Western Front, 1916-1917.
An unarmed Mark IV Male crushes barbed wire as soldiers mark its progress. An unarmed Mark IV Female comes up to the camera. Tank crews perform maintenance on "HMLS Daphne" (from IWM 116 BATTLE OF THE ANCRE). Mark IV tanks are repaired in the open at a tank base. Mark IV tanks move up a road near a battle zone. A wireless tank used as an observation post during the First Battle of Cambrai. "HMLS Oh I Say" (from IWM 116 BATTLE OF THE ANCRE). A training attack by a Mark IV Male with supporting troops advancing through smoke (note houses in background) and firing a blank shot from one of its 6-pounder guns. More of Mark I tanks (from IWM 116 BATTLE OF THE ANCRE). A Canadian officer poses with his tank, which has a Maple Leaf drawn on its nose.
35mm | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 01/3(4-15).57 [1916 Flers-Courcelette] Machine Gun Corps Tank Corps British Army Canadian Expeditionary Force 01/3(4-15).76 Heavy Section Canadian Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Canadian War Records Office | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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