'Offensive on the Cambrai Front', Western Front, 1917
Photograph by Lieutenant John Warwick Brooke, France, 1917. The official caption continues, 'One of the tanks temporarily hung up in the German 2nd System as is now seen held by English Rifles. Ribecourt. 20.11.17.'.
Official photograph from World War One (1914-1918), showing British or Commonwealth soldiers with a Mark IV Male tank (H45) named 'Hyacinth', ditched in a German trench near Ribécourt-Dreslincourt.
NAM Accession Number
NAM. 2018-01-60-9
Copyright/Ownership
National Army Museum, Out of Copyright
Location
National Army Museum, Study Collection
Object URL
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=2018-01-60-9
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