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Description: | British officer served with 2nd Coy D Bn Tank Corps on Western Front, 1917
REEL 1 Recollections of failed tank attack with 2nd Coy D Bn Tank Corps at Poelcappelle, Ypres area, Belgium, 10/1917: difficulty in crossing tree obstruction across road; direct hit from German shell; tank losses. Conditions inside tank during attack on Mousetrap Farm, St Julian, 31/7/1917. Recollections of attack on Hindenburg Line in Flesquires sector, Cambrai area, 20/11/1917: prior approach to start line in Havrincourt Wood, 19/11/1917; use of fascines; success in surprising German troops in Grand Ravine sector; pause waiting for barrage to lift; increasing German machine gun and shell fire on Flesquires Ridge; separation from supporting infantry; move to rallying point after being wounded; view of cavalry awaiting orders to attack; plan for mass tank attack; equipment with fascines; approach to camouflaged start line positions in Havrincourt Wood, 19/11/1917; situation; German machine gun fire damage to tank; crossing No Man's Land and success in cutting through German barbed wire belts. Failed tank attack in Poelcappelle sector, Ypres area, 10/1917: preparations on move up to start line; move off and difficulty on pave road; evacuation of tank having been hit by German shell; rescue by another tank; ditching in attempting to use unditching beam to rescue ditched tanks; evacuation of wounded; reception on return. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | BBC | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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