Tanks. Part II
Author: peter Date: 14 November, Category: Appealing, Visits 6128
The crew of a German tank surrendering to the crew of a British tank in a scene from a British film shot in Dorset, England. (Photo by E. Bacon/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). 14th December 1927
A man dismantling a tank with a blow torch, during the post war disarmament in Germany. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). 1920
Renault FT-17 light tanks on patrol duty, within the area of the French concession in China. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). 1927
British Army tank trials in Lincolnshire. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). 5th March 1918
Soldiers of the 18th Infantry Division fleeing from shell fire in the French village of Exermont. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images). 1918
German soldiers clustered around a tank in a Berlin street during a troubled period of the Weimar Republic. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). 1920
French soldiers holding flags and riding in tanks in front of the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs Elysees during a Bastille Day Victory Parade celebrating the end of World War I, Paris, France. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). 14th July 1919
A group of men inspecting a tank parked at Lincolns Inn, London, during an inquiry. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). 7th October 1919
Two women war workers driving a steam engine at a site for tank trials in Lincolnshire. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). 5th March 1918
The tank which played a prominent role in the Johannesburg rebellion, where union unrest erupted in the Rand Revolt, in which white workers, fearful of being replaced in the mines by lower-paid non-white workers, staged a bloody strike that was ended only by the intervention of government troops. The tank is seen passing Corner House, the Head Office of the Chamber of Mines and the Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Corporation. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). 1925
A British tank used in World War I is hoisted aboard the Cunard SS Vardulia at the King George V dock in London. It is to be shipped to Cornell University in New York. (Photo by E. Bacon/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). 18th March 1926
A wrecked tank on the battlefield at Ypres. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). September 1919
Two dummy tanks being pushed along a road by German soldiers. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). Circa 1925
A man dismantling a tank after the end of the Great War. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). Circa 1920
The authorities make Limerick city a special military area and workers respond by calling a general strike until the end of martial law. The [Scotch and Soda] tank as a barricade in the city. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). April 1919
Field Marshal Sir William Robert Robertson (1860–1933) visiting tank trials in Lincolnshire. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). 5th March 1918
British tanks in Westminster Bridge Road, London, taking part in the Peace Procession. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). July 1919
Crowds gather to see the tanks during the French occupation of Dusseldorf. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images). Circa 1923
A British armoured tank leaving Wellington Barracks in London on the 8th, and penultimate, day of the General Strike. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). 10th May 1926
Germans take war machines apart outside Berlin. Under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles Germany was required to disarm. This tank is in fact a British tank, captured and put into service by the Germans. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). 1919
PART I