100 Years Of The Tank

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100 Years Of The Tank: The Battle Of Flers-Courcelette Remembered

 

Exactly 100 years ago today, the British Army sent tanks into action for the first time at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, part of the Somme offensive, changing the nature of warfare forever.

 

To mark the centenary of the tank and to honour those who made history, the Royal Tank Regiment and the Tank Museum are in Central London to display both the oldest and latest examples of tank warfare.

 

READ MORE HERE: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/100-years-of-the-tank-the-battle-of-flers-courcelette-remembered

 

To all those Tankies past and present

 

FEAR NAUGHT

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Tank at 100: Baptism of fire, fear and blood

 

The tank, which would go on to dominate 20th Century warfare, first stormed on to the shattered battlefields of the Somme 100 years ago. Rushed into battle by desperate generals with barely any testing, its debut was a messy experiment with questionable results. A select group of young men were the first to feel its terrible influence and have their lives changed by it.

 

William Dawson came from Boston in Lincolnshire and was the eldest of four children. His father had drowned at sea in 1898 when he was 10 years old and as soon as he left school, Dawson went to work to support the family.

 

He found employment with a shipping company but had an interest in engines. In early 1916 he answered an advert in Motor Cycle magazine, in which the Motor Machine Gun Service (MMGS) asked for mechanically-minded recruits for intriguingly vague Army service.

 

READ MORE HERE: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-37302722

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Centenary of the tank

 

The tank is 100 years old. The first one used by the British Army was used in 1916 during the Battle of The Somme.

 

READ MORE HERE: http://www.army.mod.uk/news/28711.aspx