Tanks were first used in combat at Flers, France, on 15th September 1916. Heavy Section and Heavy Branch Machine Gun Corps, the Tank Corps, Royal Tank Corps and Royal Tank Regiment.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Royal Tank Regiment
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Royal Tank Regiment Memorial
9 foot bronze. The statues represent a crew from a WW2 Comet tank.
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W. E. Lawrence
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Private Frederick Martin
Frederick Martin was born circa 1916. He was serving as a Private in the Army Catering Corps, service number 911620 and was attached to the Royal Artillery when he died, aged 29 years, on 3 Septemb...
C. F. Pritchard
Clive Fleetwood Pritchard was born in 1864 in Canonbury, the eldest of the eight children of Andrew Goring Pritchard (1834-1928) and Marianne Pritchard née Titford (1839-1920). His birth was regist...
S. H. Lewis
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
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A major, but ultimately unsuccessful, uprising in India against the rule of the British East India Company. Also known as the Sepoy Mutiny.
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St Jude's Institute Football Club
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Lord Kinnaird
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