Vickers Mark 2 medium tank, 1938 (c)

Photograph by Major Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), 1939 (c).

3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) training with Vickers Mark 2 medium tank.

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 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 By the start of World War Two (1939-1945) it had been replaced by the first of the Cruiser series of tanks but Mark 2s continued to be used for training tank drivers.

From an album of 328 photographs compiled by Major W H J Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters).