Page 1 of 1
15 September - an important day for us
Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2017 7:51 am
by Chris Hall
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.)
Re: 15 September - an important day for us
Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2017 9:25 am
by Stephen White
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:
This is D1's approach to Delville Wood today:
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.
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