It was at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette on the Somme, in September 1916, that tanks first went into action. If there is an originator of the tank it was Lt Col (later Major-General) Sir Ernest ...
The tank was designed to withstand machine-gun fire and break through trench defences. Horace Leslie Birks was put in charge of one of these early tanks at Passchendaele. HORACE LESLIE BIRKS ...
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