whippettank

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British tanks going forward to check the German advance

from National Library of Scotland

  • munkeezulu said:
    The caption and the lack of recognition stripes suggest this was taken in march 1918 when 3rd Tank Battalion were sent forward to tackle the Kaiserschlacht offensive. The whippets were designed as mechanised cavalry to be used in the exploitation role once the enemies front had been breached. Source: sites.google.com/site/landships/home/narratives/1918/kais... I'm no expert but I'm pretty sure cavalry were not used in advance of the infantry to break the enemies line in the first world war.

Tanks on parade in London at the end of World War I, 1918

from National Library NZ on The Commons

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  • James Daly said:
    Wow great photo! Can you imagine what those people must have thought? They would never have seen anything quite like this before.
  • Yersinia pestis said:
    I wouldn't be so sure - tanks were a popular spectacle in Lonodn in the latter years of WWI: www.flickr.com/photos/ridgway/145278027/
  • sarflondondunc said:
    I see the tanks have their hatches up. In battle they were horrendously hot inside and the engine fumes could almost overcome the crew
  • Paul Mison said:
    The thing that makes it for me is, perhaps predictably, the juxtaposition with the road sign: 'Caution, Drive Slowly'.
  • fulvue said:
    Blighters, by Siegfried Sassoon: The house is crammed: tier beyond tier they grin and cackle at the Show, while prancing ranks Of harlots shrill the chorus, drunk with din; 'We're sure the Kaiser loves our dear old Tanks!' I'd like to see a Tank come down the stalls, Lurching to rag-time tunes, or 'Home, sweet Home', And there'd be no more jokes in Music-Halls To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume.

Tank pulling three ton Military truck from the banks of the Liffey

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    I had this ready to post but I had forgotten that the following related photo had already been posted. Your comments on this photo are still welcome.
  • derangedlemur said:
    Looks like it's probably down here on Pigeonhouse road maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,719062,733954,11,9.
  • guliolopez said:
    Presumably that's a pile of the tobacco leaf itself (removed from the barrel) on the slip way?
  • derangedlemur said:
    They probably used it to make JP Navy Cut Extra Salty.
  • guliolopez said:
    derangedlemur Did they not know that flavoured tobacco is on its way to being outlawed? I found this in the Indo from Tuesday 17 May 1921: www.flickr.com/photos/20727502@N00/27127766860/ And this from the Examiner on Monday 16 May 1921: www.flickr.com/photos/20727502@N00/27369909746/