centurion Posted 28 October , 2008 Share Posted 28 October , 2008 Trying to determine where this memorial is in Britain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n cherry Posted 28 October , 2008 Share Posted 28 October , 2008 Can I suggest it looks very much like the Guynemer Memorial at Poelkapelle in Belgium........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurel Sercu Posted 28 October , 2008 Share Posted 28 October , 2008 This is the Guynemer Memorial in Poelkapelle, 8 km northeast of Ypres (Flanders, Belgium) Aurel P.S. Sorry, N Cherry, you've beaten me with 2 minutes, while I was measuring the distance Ypres - Poelkapelle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centurion Posted 29 October , 2008 Author Share Posted 29 October , 2008 Thanks I wonder why there is a WW1 tank in the process of being scrapped nearby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Morgan Posted 29 October , 2008 Share Posted 29 October , 2008 Before the memorial was built, the village had a tank displayed on the same spot. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centurion Posted 29 October , 2008 Author Share Posted 29 October , 2008 Before the memorial was built, the village had a tank displayed on the same spot. Tom That explains it - thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tanks3 Posted 29 October , 2008 Share Posted 29 October , 2008 Centurion, See this link also: http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/i...3&hl=tanks3 Tanks3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centurion Posted 29 October , 2008 Author Share Posted 29 October , 2008 Yes - a number of French villages had one as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Missinne Posted 29 October , 2008 Share Posted 29 October , 2008 Some pictures about the tank-project: Poelcapelle 1917 Association Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Baker Posted 29 October , 2008 Share Posted 29 October , 2008 In case you are wondering, the bird atop the memorial is the stork, the symbol of Guynemer's squadron "Les cigognes". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centurion Posted 29 October , 2008 Author Share Posted 29 October , 2008 one French village that had a tank was Montbrehain which owned Lurcher. This tank was removed by the Germans in 1941 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tanks3 Posted 30 October , 2008 Share Posted 30 October , 2008 Centurion, Nice photo. I was not aware of this. Do you know of any more beside Ypres and Poelcapelle? Tanks3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Clark Posted 30 October , 2008 Share Posted 30 October , 2008 The GWF comes up with the goods once again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce Posted 30 October , 2008 Share Posted 30 October , 2008 Talking this summer to a local resident, the tank was in the main street in the village until 1940. It was then removed by the Germans (for scrap?) and thus denying the local children something upon which to play, as they had done since 1918. The elderly man I was speaking too still thinks the Germans ought to return "their" tank! Bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centurion Posted 30 October , 2008 Author Share Posted 30 October , 2008 St Souplet had one too - also removed by the Germans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidearm Posted 30 October , 2008 Share Posted 30 October , 2008 Mers les Bains had one. Also I think Peronne, but I'd like that confirmed, please! Gwyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidearm Posted 30 October , 2008 Share Posted 30 October , 2008 Oh, and Cambrai, Le Treport and Suippes. Didn't know about St Souplet - any details of that one? Gwyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centurion Posted 30 October , 2008 Author Share Posted 30 October , 2008 A Mk IV Female, no number visible, red and white recognition stripes. There is a St Souplet web site with a photo donated by a member of a local society. Not sure of the rights and wrongs of posting this. If you can't find the site PM me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tanks3 Posted 31 October , 2008 Share Posted 31 October , 2008 Sidearm and Centurion, Thanks. Interesting I didn't realise there were so many Tanks3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centurion Posted 1 November , 2008 Author Share Posted 1 November , 2008 Link to the St Souplet tank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidearm Posted 2 November , 2008 Share Posted 2 November , 2008 Thanks Centurion. Couldn't get the link to work but found the St Souplet photo anyway. I think it has a serial number, but it's hard to read. 2598 possibly? Gwyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centurion Posted 2 November , 2008 Author Share Posted 2 November , 2008 Either that or 2508 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidearm Posted 30 November , 2008 Share Posted 30 November , 2008 Just come across three more locations that had tanks presented to them - Lille, Le Havre and Compiegne. Gwyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
14kvn Posted 4 December , 2008 Share Posted 4 December , 2008 Trying to determine where this memorial is in Britain Hi I took a very similar picture back in the mid 1970's - good to be reminded where it is . What about these others - ring any bells any one ? Thanks Kevin In Memory of Gunner J H Gent 1/1 Cambs & 118 MGC "Few came through unscathed, but though they suffered they endured " . ( Colonel M C Clayton 1/1 Cambs ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 4 December , 2008 Admin Share Posted 4 December , 2008 Passchendaele New British cemetery is top left, possibly Cement House top right Michelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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