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Description: | British private served as gunner with B Bn Tank Corps in Battle of Cambrai, France, 11/1917
REEL 1: Recollections of operations as gunner with B Bn Tank Corps in Battle of Cambrai, France, 11/1917: description of conditions in Passchendaele, 9/1917; role of tanks in Battle of Cambrai; tank crew; memories of officers Lt Enoch and Lt Knight; description of operations on road between St Julien and Poelcappelle; problem of trees across road; description of conditions in tank; view from tank; story of destruction of Lt Knight's tank by shell; reached objectives; story of rescue of Cpl Jagger from Lt Knight's tank; confirmation of death of Lt Knight; removal of wounded from tank; question of not stopping to help wounded; use of camouflage on tanks;description of tank and crew; armaments; speed; petrol consumption; kit and equipment; food supplies; ammunition; signalling flags and pigeons; description of noise and smell in tanks; story of post-war trip to Cambrai for 60th anniversary,1977; role as gunner in fore sponson; view from tank; description of terrain; reached German front line; use of zigzagging by tanks; surrender of Germans; tanks flattened barbed wire for infantry; tank hit by shell and disabled on Flesquieres Ridge; large numbers of German POWs; restarted tank and returned to Havrincourt Wood; salvaged tanks from battlefield.
REEL 2 Continues: use of salvaged tanks in counterattack; further comments on battlefield tour, 1977. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Addy, Jason | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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