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Remembered Today:

Presentation of a Tank to the City of Winchester


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Thanks Gwyn. That's interesting, I'll look out for that book.

 

Alan.

 

 

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Alan

 

It's not a book.  It's a CD and it looks at the history of all the presentation tanks presented at the end of WW1 to the towns, cities etc in England and Wales.  Have a look at the Friends of the Lincoln Tank website for more details if you are interested

 

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Thanks, already found the website and will attempt to make the purchase.

 

Alan.

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On 23 September 2016 at 20:57, Sidearm said:

Will do Dave.  Thank you. What other WW1 tanks are they working on?

 

Gwyn

Hi Gwyn

did you receive the pm I sent you the other day

Dave

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26 minutes ago, Dave1418 said:

Hi Gwyn

did you receive the pm I sent you the other day

Dave

I did Dave - sorry I thought I had sent one in reply.  I wasn't able to do as you suggested immediately but will do tonight.

 

Thanks for your help.

 

Gwyn

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What an exciting thread. I had no idea this tank was there. How many Mark IV examples do we have left in the UK ?

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There is only 1 presentation tank that remains in situ ie Ashford's.  However, The museum of Lincolnshire Life in Lincoln can now boast to have what was the Gloucester Presentation tank.

 

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  • 5 months later...

Found sitting at home this week another picture of the Winchester Tank 223.

This is from the book Winchester A Pictorial History by Tom Beaumont James pub. 1993 Phillmore & Co Ltd.

 

Tom James is a Professor at the University of Winchester and is behind the website 'Debt of Honour' project which lists [most of] Winchester's fallen.

 

Cut and pasted from the OP, this will be the caption to the photo...

 

The procession formed at 11.55 consisted of the band of the 2nd Batt. the Hampshire Regt., the R.N.F.D. escort with fixed bayonets, and six officers and 300 men from the Repatriation Camp.

 

Regards

 

Alan.

 

Tank 223.JPG

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Alan, what a great photo, must try to find an original print of this.

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Thanks for sharing

 

The Broadway has not changed for the better in the last 100 years.

Far too much "street furniture" 

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