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during training before the battle of Cambrai
With kind permission of Imperial War Museum ©IWM (Q6424)
The use of tanks as a weapon of modern warfare began on the western front during WW1. Their advantage was that they could mow down and break through the barbed wire which presented such a formidable obstacle to the movement of infantry. They could also go across trenches by carrying ‘fascines’ – rolls of brushwood which they dumped in a trench, forming a rough bridge enabling a tank to ride over.
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‘Deborah’ is a British Mark IV tank which saw service in Flesquieres during the Battle of Cambrai on November 20, 1917.
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This is the story of Sir William Hugh Stobart Chance (in his own words), educated at Eton College and commissioned in to the Worcestershire Regiment in 1915.
