Horace Leslie Birks was put in charge of one of these early tanks at Passchendaele. HORACE LESLIE BIRKS: This was the first time I had actually commanded a tank in action, and I was petrified.

It was at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette on the Somme, in September 1916, that tanks first went into action. If there is an originator of the tank it was Lt Col (later Major-General) Sir Ernest ...

Tanks were invented in Britain. Historian Dan Snow describes the earliest versions and charts how they developed and were increasingly used in battle during WW1. We hear how intrigued the British ...

A MUSEUM has received a unique artefact linked to the history of the world's first ever tank battles. A tank crew ‘splatter’ face mask belonging to Corporal Walter H Stickler, who served in ...