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Description: | An ms diary (16pp) written by a Private, Tom Clarey, whilst serving with the 15th Battalion Tank Corps attached to the 4th Australian Division on the Western Front, 8 July – 19 August 1917[?] describing accidents involving officers and their own tanks, the difficulties of travelling at night, mechanical problems with the machines and their vulnerabilities in battle, how the enemy fled before the tanks and being gassed by the enemy. Together with: three photographs of groups of soldiers in uniform; a photograph of a Gloster-Napier Seaplane, a photograph of plane wreckage being pulled from the sea (September 1927), and a photograph of the Royal Navy cruiser HMS CONQUEST and the aircraft carrier HMS EAGLE illuminated at night, taken in 1927 during the Duke and Duchess of York's visit to Malta.
Cataloguer SMR | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Tank Corps British Army aircraft carrier (1918) 15th Battalion Royal Navy HMS EAGLE 4th Australian Division | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Clarey, Tom | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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