Ww1 / 15Sep16 / Battle SommeFIRST BATTLE OF THE SOMME British tanks are used in action for the first time, causing panic among the Germans
Tank Battle on the Somme British MkIV & German A7V tanks inTank Battle on the Somme. British MkIV & German A7V tanks in action. Date: circa 1918
Tank Battle in Villers Bocage, France 1944Illustration showing a battle between German Tiger tanks and British tanks and infantry in the village of Villers Bocage, Normandy, June 1944
Tank in Battle of Menin Road, Ypres, Belgium, WW1A British tank at the Battle of Menin Road, Ypres, Belgium, during the First World War. Some of the crew have come out for a breath of fresh air while waiting for the order to advance. Date: 1917
British Mark IV tank with Tadpole Tail, WW1British Mark IV tank with Tadpole Tail, introduced in 1917 and used during the latter part of the First World War. The Tadpole Tail was an elongation of the rear horns to increase trench-crossing
British Mark IV tank with Canadian soldiers, WW1A British Mark IV tank on a training exercise, with a large number of Canadian soldiers sitting on top of it, on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: February 1918
British tank WWIIBritish Matilda tank in France during World War II
Ta Poster / BairnsfatherA recruitment poster for the Territorial Army featuring Bairnsfathers WWI creation, Old Bill
Tank Corps RecruitmentWanted Smart Men for the Tank Corps - Let Professor Tank teach you a Trade Recruitment drive for the newly created tank Corps toward the end of WW1
British tank on Western Front, WW1A British tank, with the name " Barbarian II" painted on its side, in the snow on the Western Front during the First World War. Two German soldiers stand alongside it. Date: 28 December 1917
Battle of Cambrai 1917Tank trains standing at Plateau Station awaiting despatch to detraining railheads at the Battle of Cambrai on the Western Front in France during World War I in November 1917
German Armoured Vehicles; Second World War, 1944Illustration showing a selection of German armoured vehicles used during the Battle for Normandy in 1944. The vehicles shown include Panther and Tiger tanks (left foreground)
British Infantry and Tanks, Reichswald; World War Two, 1945Photograph showing British infantry riding on Sherman tanks towards the Reichswald area, Germany, February 1945. On the left of the image anti-tank guns and their crews can be seen
American Troops landing on D-Day; Second World War, 1944Photograph showing American troops storming one of the Normandy beaches on D-Day, 6 June 1944. This image shows the first tanks charging through the water to the shore
Wwi Recruitment PosterFirst World War recruitment poster featuring a private and an officer and pictures of various divisions - including the Royal Flying Corps, Tank corps, artillery & cavalry
Unusual TanksA selection of tanks shaped like animals
WW1 / 1917 / BRITISH TANKA British tank in action in France
British tanks in Oosthoek Wood, Belgium, WW1Two British tanks passing through Oosthoek Wood, near Elverdinghe, Belgium, on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 11 September 1917
Turn out more Scrap Metal - Turn out More Tanks posterWorld War II poster encouraging civilians on the home front to donate more scrap metal which can be turned into tanks to help the war effort
Oil Tankers of the Manchester Oil Refinery. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Badge of the Royal Armoured Corps. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith
German Tanks AdvanceA German tank column, accompanied by infantry, advances into Russia
Wwi / British Tank / CambraiAt Cambrai, British tanks smash through the Hindenburg Line, a success that the limited mobile reserves were unable to exploit
British machine gun carriers passing through French villageBritish Bren Machine-Gun Carriers passing through a French village on the way to a rendezvous in the early weeks of World War Two. Date: 1939
Battle of the Scarpe, near Fampoux, France, WW1A tank attached to the 51st Division embedded in the Scarpe Marshes near Fampoux, northern France, observed by a solitary soldier
German Tiger tank by G. H. DavisThe fangs of the Tiger revealed: another German super-weapon whose invincibility has been disproved. Details of the German Mark VI tank, a 56-ton monster whose 88mm gun fires a three foot long shell
Battle of Arras 1917Scene on the newly captured Fampoux Road with a ditched tank and soldiers at the Battle of Arras on the Western Front in France during World War I in April 1917
Llandarcy Oil Refinery, Swansea, WalesThe tank farm at the Llandarcy Oil Refinery, Swansea, Wales - built by British Petroleum Oil between 1918-22
Army tanks in battle with planes overhead, WW2Army tanks in battle with planes overhead. Date: 1940
Tanks / War Bonds PosterWorld War One poster featuring a tank, encouraging the public to buy war bonds to help fund the war effort
Italians in SomaliaEast Africa : the Italians rout the British in Somalia
Witley Station. The move to WestburyPhotograph: Witley Station. The move to Westbury. Photograph showing a number of tanks, having been loaded onto a train. From a photograph album containing 620 photographs compiled by Maj Wilfred
WW2 Poster -- Don t Waver, Help WavellDont Waver, Help Wavell. En---ds War Weapons Week, 17-24 May 1940. War saving photolithographic poster, published by The National Savings Committee, London, The Scottish Savings Committee
Tank abandoned in a field, end of WWIA tank abandoned in a field during the First World War, with a notice attached to it written in French saying, among other things, that it is forbidden to go inside. circa 1921
Blitz in London -- damage to tanks, Thames Haven, WW2Blitz in London -- damage to tanks, Thames Haven, near Thurrock, Essex, 7 September 1940. Firefighters trying to push a fire appliance (open topped pump)
Tanks of the 3rd and 4th SharpshooterPhotograph: Tanks of the 3rd and 4th Sharpshooters in the de-waterproofing area. Shows two lines of tanks with the sea in the background
Capture of Kleve, men of 2nd Battalion Gordon HighlandersPhotograph, 11 Feb 1945: capture of Kleve, men of 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders supported by tanks of Guards Brigade. Associated with World War Two, North West Europe (1944-1945)
East African Reconnaissance Regiment in BurmaPhotograph of a soldier from the East African Reconnaissance Regiment, checking a machine-gun, Burma, 1945. The East African Reconnaissance Regiment, part of 11th East African Division
Blitz in London -- damage to tanks, Thames Haven, WW2Blitz in London -- damage to tanks and pipelines at Thames Haven, near Thurrock, Essex, 7 September 1940. The ground was covered with spilt oil which was subsequently ignited during an attack
The introduction of tanks into battle on the Western FrontA illustration showing a tank driving through a village street on the Western Front. Tanks were first introduced into battle on the 15th September 1916 when a D1 tank was guided into action by
The walking way in the keel of the R34, shown when the airship was still under construction. Some of the aluminium fuel tanks and canvas bags for the water ballast may be seen. 24 November 1918
Fighting fires at Thames Haven oil tanks, WW2Fighting fires at Thames Haven oil tanks during the Second World War
Whippet Tanks 1918Whippet tanks of the 3rd Battalion at Maillet, some of which had been in action earlier in the day and were the first Whippet tanks to be in action
Two Soviet Heavy Tanks Josef Stalin (IS) IIThis model of tank was introduced in spring 1944. The conflict depictedis likely to have been taken in Belarus or Poland in late autumn 1944
Italians Take AdwaThe Italians invade and capture Adua, against a poorly equipped and ill-prepared Ethiopian army
Tanks Near TobrukNorth Africa : a German tank destroys a British tank in Marmarica, during the fiercely contested battle for Tobruk, Libya
Soviet ships attempt to land in EstoniaGerman tanks thwart the Russians landing attempt in Estonia
TANKS RECYCLEDGerman tanks from World War One are scrapped and recycled Date: 1920
