Vickers Mark 2 medium tanks, Tidworth, 1928

Photograph, 1928.

Vickers Mark 2 medium tanks at a vehicle demonstration at Tidworth, 12 July 1928.

The British Army Vickers medium tank differed from its World War One predecessors by carrying its main armament in a rotatable turret. The Mark 2 was produced between 1925 and 1934 and saw action on the North West Frontier of India. It was armed with a 3 pounder gun and four machine guns and had a crew of five. By the start of World War Two (1939-1945) it had been replaced by the first of the Cruiser series of tanks but Mark 2s continued to be used for training tank drivers.