Major-General Hugh Elles, C.B., D.S.O. From a portrait by Sir William Orpen, A.R.A. | |
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General Arrangements of Mark V. Tank—Front View | 28 |
General Arrangement of Mark V. Tank—Sectional Elevation | 28 |
General Arrangement of Mark V. Tank—Sectional Plan | 29 |
Diagram Showing Adaptation to the “Large-Wheeled Tractor” Idea | 29 |
The Original Thiepval Mark I. Tank with Anti-Bomb Roof and “Tail” | 64 |
Field Camouflage | 64 |
A Derelict. Valley of the Scarpe | 96 |
A Burning Tank | 96 |
“Direct Hits” | 97 |
Bellied on a Tree-Stump and Subsequently Hit | 97 |
A Flanders Pill-Box | 132 |
The Unditching Beam in Action | 132 |
The Steenbeek Valley Before the Battle | 133 |
The Steenbeek Valley After Bombardment | 133 |
A Deadly Swamp (the Wrecks of Six Tanks May Be Counted) | 144 |
“Clapham Junction” Near Sanctuary Wood | 145 |
“The Salient” | 145 |
Preparing for Cambrai. A Train of Tanks with Fascines in Position | 176 |
The Bapaume-Cambrai Road | 177 |
A Tank Crushing down the Enemy’s Wire | 177 |
Sledge Towing Tank Taking up Supplies | 200 |
Bermicourt Chateau near St. Pol. Tank Corps Main Headquarters | 200 |
Gun-Carrying Tank Taking up a Howitzer | 201 |
A Whippet Going In | 201 |
Smoke Screen and Semaphore | 304 |
A Tankadrome | 304 |
Moving Up. Battle of Amiens | 305 |
The Armoured Cars Going Up | 305 |
German Anti-Tank Gunners. (From a photograph found on a prisoner) | 336 |
An Anti-Tank Gun in a Steel Cupola (Ypres) | 336 |
A Captured German Tank | 337 |
A German Anti-Tank Rifle | 337 |
Infantry Advancing Behind Tanks. A Practice Attack at Bermicourt | 368 |
The St. Quentin Canal Tunnel, Bellicourt | 369 |
Carrier Pigeon Being Released | 369 |
His Majesty the Colonel-in-Chief and General Elles | 384 |
Manufacture | 385 |
The Western Edge of Mormal Forest | 396 |
A “Wireless” Tank | 397 |
Map of Tank Operations, August–November, 1918 | 416 |