Tank use in the Second Battle of Gaza

[high wood]

Here is one of mine taken from an album in my collection.

[high wood]

H.M.L.S. Otazel.

Edited 18 March , 2023 by high wood
Correcting typos.

[stevenbecker]

Puk,

The photo remainds me of the one from Ottoman sourses that being HMLS Nutty, when left in the defences of Tank Redout

The Ottomans used it as part of there trench system 

[pukman]

Nice to hear from you Steven Becker . The days of the old NZMR association forum long gone . Yes it has been suggested to me by a respected NZ  historian that it is HMLS Nutty . Check out my other photos from this lot on my Facebook page Unknown Warriors of the NZEF minus a couple I couldn't publish  because they show dead people and in Facebook world dead people don't  exist as in  images' of corpse's  . Cheers Iain /Puk 

[stevenbecker]

Mate,

yes it also depends on when the photo was taken.

All abandoned tanks under went many changes until Nov 1917 when the line advanced passed the Gaza Trenches.

They became a snap shot for so many soldiers during a visit long after, again it took time to clear the old battlefields 

S.B

[high wood]

My photograph album once belonged to Pte M2-229810 George W Earl of the Army Service Corps. He appears to have been employed to drive a Holt Tractor to tow artillery pieces and recover tanks from the Gaza battlefields during the campaign. 

Edited 18 March , 2023 by high wood

[high wood]

H.M.L.S. Otazel close up.

Edited 18 March , 2023 by high wood