Guest trenchfoot Posted 16 March , 2003 Share Posted 16 March , 2003 Anyone any ideas on the following; Seen in local antique centre,small,faded "sepia" photograph;long road ,typical shell blasted trees spaced around,ww1 tanks can be seen at various places,looking extremly knackered! for want of a better word! most seem to have had their armament removed, one seems to have broken track, another as far as i can see is "cut" completly in half!.....could this perhaps be a "just" post ww1 scene? has anyone seen similar scenes in books etc? Link to post Share on other sites
MartinWills Posted 17 March , 2003 Share Posted 17 March , 2003 There are quite a number of postcard pictures of various tanks in damaged and derelict states (I picked up a small bundle of them a few years ago). My initial thought was that they might be German pictures, but I doubt it. Amongst my batch were several of tanks in Cologne (Koln) in 1918/19. I believe that the Tank Museum at Bovington has quite a collection of these pictures and some of the information culled from these was used for the book "Following the Tanks". Link to post Share on other sites
Jacky Platteeuw Posted 17 March , 2003 Share Posted 17 March , 2003 There was a so called 'Tank Cemetery' at Hooge near Ieper. There are a few photo's and postcards of it, even with wrecks of named tanks. I suppose there were also other of those tank cemeteries along the front. Certainly there exist a number of postcards of Poelkapelle with damaged tanks on it. Jacky Link to post Share on other sites
Robert Missinne Posted 21 March , 2003 Share Posted 21 March , 2003 See Sint-Juliaan in de eerste wereldoorlog, click on "Dorpsgezichten". Robert Link to post Share on other sites
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