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Whether the parallel of the Tank Corps to the extra three-quarter is a completely true one history will record in due season. What, however, we may claim is that the fourth three-quarter after a nervous start, in which perhaps he was sometimes out of his place, nevertheless on more than one occasion got away unmarked; that he ran straight even when he was being heavily tackled and drew the opposition for his side; that he went down well to the rushes of the German forwards; and that, finally, he more than once handled the ball in the great combined run which took his team from within its own twenty-five over the opponents’ goal line.
Yours sincerely,
United Service Club, July 28, 1919.
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Major-General Hugh Elles, C.B., D.S.O. From a portrait by Sir William Orpen, A.R.A. FACING PAGE 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