Training & Combat
THE GUNNERY SCHOOL
While Bovington is the ‘home’ of the tank, the gunnery training was done just down the road at Lulworth. However, that was not always the case.
BOVINGTON CAMP POEM FOUND
“Inside the huts there’s RATS as big as any nanny goat”. The Tank Museum Archive staff have found an amusing postcard
CAMOUFLAGE
From the very beginning the tank had to be well-camouflaged, first when it was a secret weapon and then later when it advanced on to the battlefield.
THE FACE MASK & HELMET
This is a tank crew face mask, which would have been issued to every member of a tank’s crew to protect his face and particularly his eyes from the effects
SPONSONS
Sponsons were built separately from tanks, not necessarily by the company that built the actual tanks.
THE BOMBPROOF ROOF
This framework of wood and wire-netting (chicken wire the Americans call it) was devised as a means to prevent enemy stick grenades from lodging on the roof of the tank.
BBC WORLD WAR ONE UNCUT – TANKS
Historian Dan Snow presents this bite size history of the tank in the First World War, filmed on location at The Tank Museum.
THE BATTLE OF CAMBRAI
At 6.20am, on 20th November 1917, a surprise attack by the British Army created a major break in the German lines to commence the Battle of Cambrai.
A7V: THE FIRST PANZER
The British Mk I tank was unleashed during the Battle of The Somme in September 1916 – but the Germans were much slower to develop an armoured fighting vehicle of their
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