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15 September - an important day for us

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Chris Hall
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15 September - an important day for us

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Happy Birthday, fellow tankers - 101 years old today !

(For those of you not historically-oriented, it was on this day in 1916 that the first tank attack in history took place at Flers-Courcelette on the Somme.)
Mark IV (Liesel, Abteilung 14, France 1918)
M3 Lee (25 Dragoons, Burma 1944)
Universal Carrier (2/Wiltshires, Italy 1944)
Panther (Deserter, 145 RAC, Italy 1944)
Centurion Mk 3 (8KRIH, Korea 1950/51)
Morris Quad, 25-pdr & limber (45RA, Korea 1951)
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Well done Chris. To quote Trevor Pidgeon "The Tanks at Flers", speaking of Captain Mortimore's D1,

"The first tank in the world. The very first. All the tanks that have ever waged war are in a sense the descendants of Mortimore's D1".

This is D1's route in support of 14th Div:
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This is D1's approach to Delville Wood today:
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I'll be celebrating at lunch with fellow officers of the Fourth Tanks, alias 4th Battalion, RTC, alias D Company, Heavy Branch, Machine Gun Corps.
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If anyone would like to read up on this, I did a post on the Centenary, here:

http://www.armortek.co.uk/Forum3b/viewt ... ers#p52782

Sorry you couldn't make it to Tiger Day.

Fear Naught.

Stephen
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