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BRITAIN’S BEST SELLING MILITARY HISTORY MONTHLY
Troublemaker
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Relief at Tobruk
Baptism of Fire
in The Midlands
Mud, Blood &
Shellfire
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OCTOBER 2016
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W
hen the first tanks rumbled onto the battlefield a century ago, they may not have been game-changers in their
first appearance. Indeed, their very entrance onto the stage that was the Western Front was hardly auspicious,
and yet the tank would ultimately go on to be developed into one of the most important battlefield assets of the
20th and 21st century.
In this issue we mark the advent of the tank as a weapon of war and honour the men who went to battle in them – both in 1916 and
across the subsequent century. Certainly, the primitive beasts that rumbled into the view of their startled opponents on 15 September
1916 were a very far cry from the sophisticated machines that are the main battle tanks of today’s modern armies. Nevertheless, those first
machines and the men who operated them were pioneers in what was an entirely new and untried method of waging war.
Bringing things up to date, and putting the British Army’s Challenger II into context against its 1916 counterpart, your Editor’s son
compares the two vastly different tanks as part of our lead feature. A former Queen’s Royal Hussars tank crewman NCO, with tours of
duty in Iraq and Afghanistan and an abiding interest in military history, Steve Saunders is well placed to offer his perspective. The Editor
makes no excuses for inviting him to do so, although admits that going from interviewing old men who were veterans to interviewing his
veteran son makes him feel pretty old, too!
We salute the ‘tankies’ who have served the British Army across a full century.
Andy Saunders
(Editor)
EDITORIAL
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FEATURES
22 Monsters on the Front
The first of our Tank 100 special features rolls out with Peter
Hart’s fascinating analysis of initial use of British tanks at Flers-
Courcelette.
Continuing our Tank 100 themed content, British Army Challenger
2 veteran Steve Saunders tells of his experiences inside the type
and compares them with what it felt like inside a Great War Mark
IV tank.
Austin Ruddy details the devastating effect a pre-Blitz strike had
on the civilian infrastructure and population of Leicester in the
East Midlands during the early days of the Battle of Britain.
To conclude our Tank centenary coverage, John Ash looks into the
troubled career of tank pioneer Percy Hobart and assesses his
impact and that of his specialist division, the 79
th
, on a successful
Normandy Invasion.
56 Banff Strike Wing
30 The British Tank at 100
The difficulties and dangers of Coastal Command’s vital anti-
shipping strikes, and the courage they required, is the subject of
David Smith’s feature as he details the operations undertaken by
Banff’s Beaufighter and Mosquito crews.
Relief has come! Or has it? Peter Hart concludes his trilogy on the
South Nottinghamshire Hussars and their support of a breakout
attempt from the now infamous port city of Tobruk.
Alexandra Churchill returns with the story of the forgotten Great
War ‘army’; the millions involved in protecting the Realm through
the support of the armed services and Police along with other
essential war work on the home front.
66 Tobruk
34 Leicester’s Baptism of Fire
86 Defending the Realm
46 Reputations – Maj-Gen. Percy Hobart
Contents
ISSUE 114
OCTOBER 2016
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Banff Strike Wing
100 These Gallant Little Ships
Editor’s Choice
The Royal New Zealand Navy’s Michael Wynd tells how a pair
of tiny corvettes, the first new-build ships to enter service with
the Royal New Zealand Navy, fresh from the yard of a Scottish
shipbuilder, bravely took on a Japanese submarine more than
twice their size.
NEWS FEATURE
6 Tiger Killer Restored to Glory
Carry Harts reports on the astounding nine-month restoration
of the A34 Comet tank ‘Celerity’, expertly undertaken by the
Dutch company BAIV B.V., and tells of the tank’s reunion with
veteran crew.
74 Mud, Blood and Shelling
Steve Snelling relates the poignant story of the little known
‘TAK’ Cubitt, a young and brave soldier-poet who became
tragically caught up in the hell of the Somme’s muddy
battlefield. A sad tale of devotion to duty amongst mud,
carnage and incessant gunfire.
REGULARS
10 News
News, restorations, discoveries and events from around
the World.
32 War Posters
Continuing our series looking at wartime propaganda
posters, Phil Jarman discusses how the work of Savile Lumley
successfully used guilt as a motivator for recruitment.
54 Fieldpost
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84 First World War Diary
Our month-by-month analysis of the key events of the Great
War reaches October, where the ongoing Somme battle
increases in ferocity and German U-Boats log some easy, but
controversial, victories.
94 Image of War
The subject of the remarkable photograph in this issue is
the burnt out and skeletal remains of Zeppelin L.33, dwarfing
the nearby buildings in the village of Little Wigborough 100
years ago.
COVER STORY
96 Recon Report
On 15 September 1916 the British Army
used tanks for the very first time at the
Somme. Whilst hardly a great success
on its first outing, its history-making
first appearance had a profound impact.
One German reflected: ‘It presented a
fantastic picture, this ‘Colossus’, in the
dawn light. One moment its front section
would disappear into a crater, with the
rear section still protruding, the next
its yawning mouth would rear up out of
the crater, to roll slowly forward with
terrifying assurance.’
(ILLUSTRATION BY PIOTR FORKASIEWICZ)
Our team continues to review the latest military history titles,
including our Book of the Month – a ground breaking study of
the air war over the Mediterranean.
108 Great War Gallantry
We look at the gallantry awards announced in the London
Gazette of October 1916 and examine another ‘Hero of the
Month’ selected by Lord Ashcroft.
114 The First World War in Objects
This month’s object from the Great War is a British soldier’s
bible, recovered from battle in 1917 by a German soldier
which was returned long after the event and on the very eve
of the next world war.
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