New Bovington Website

Discussion in 'WW2 Museums. Events, & places to see.' started by von Poop, Sep 9, 2008.

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  1. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    I usually check the Tank Museum's site daily, and it's stayed pretty static for a long while.
    Today I go there & it's been entirely revamped:
    Welcome to the Tank Museum - Home of the Tank - Welcome to the Tank Museum - Home of the Tank
    Most significantly to start off with, there's now a browsable index of all vehicles on display, with a sensible description and article attached to each (be nice if they got around to adding the back collection to the lists).

    Sadly it looks like some of the good stuff from the previous site's no longer present, means a lot of old links to there have been killed along with some Fletcher articles & the fascinating 'collections news', but hopefully they'll port that across at some stage.

    Cheers,
    Adam.
     
  2. Tom Canning

    Tom Canning WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    Adam - not too impressed with their roll of honour - their spelling of the name WILLIAMS - leaves a lot to be desired at WILILAMS......Maybe you could drop them a line - or two ??
    Cheers
     
  3. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    I see what you mean Tom.
    They appear to have rolled the site out today, so I imagine they're still tweaking it (fair few sections look like they're ready for filling up)... they also haven't yet updated their site-specific contact email addresses.
    I'm sure they won't mind a nudge if it's not sorted in a week or so.
     
  4. Tom Canning

    Tom Canning WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    Adam -
    they are all old Tank men so have endured a few nudges in the past - thickskinned you know !
     
  5. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    There you go Tom,
    Emailed a very nice lady at the museum who thanked kindly for the notification and promised would be sorted ASAP.
    Few weeks later - All Williams's now correctly remembered.
     
  6. Tom Canning

    Tom Canning WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    Adam -
    Must have been Jane Devine you e-mailed - her husband Frank is an old 16th/5th wallah - it's still missing Norman Ingram's death on 18th sept '44 on Coriano Ridge - he had just taken command of "B" squadron 145th regt RAC when he started his first battle....
     
  7. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Your man's in there Tom:

    http://www.tankmuseum.org/ixbin/indexplus?_IXSESSION_=_IXSESSION_%3D&_IXSPFX_=templates%2Fsummary%2Fracben%2Fb&_IXFPFX_=templates%2Ffull%2Fracben%2Ft&_IXACTION_=query&_IXMAXHITS_=15&%24+rec+bov_auth_person+and+h+index+mus_auth_type+sort+@icase+bov_auth_person_name=.&_IXNAME=ingram&_IXbov_deceased_decorations=Please+enter&_IXbov_deceased_army_number=Please+enter&_IXbov_deceased_rank=Please+enter&_IXbov_deceased_regiment=Please+enter&_IXbov_deceased_place=Please+enter&_IXbov_deceased_earliest_date=Please+enter&_IXbov_deceased_latest_date=Please+enter&_IXbov_deceased_book_number=Please+enter&_IXsearch=Search

    :poppy:

    <TABLE id=resultlist cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=1><TBODY><TR><TH width="5%">Book</TH><TH width="20%">Name</TH><TH width="5%">Decs</TH><TH width="10%">Army No</TH><TH width="8%">Rank</TH><TH width="20%">Regiment</TH><TH width="20%">Place</TH><TH width="12%">Date</TH></TR><TR><TD class=center>1</TD><TD>INGRAM, CHARLES</TD><TD></TD><TD>7894428</TD><TD>Trooper </TD><TD>Royal Tank Regiment </TD><TD>MIDDLE EAST </TD><TD class=right>27/06/1942 </TD></TR><TR><TD class=center>1</TD><TD>INGRAM, CHARLES H</TD><TD></TD><TD>7903345</TD><TD>Trooper </TD><TD>4th Queen's Own Huss... </TD><TD>MIDDLE EAST </TD><TD class=right>23/04/1941 </TD></TR><TR><TD class=center>3</TD><TD>INGRAM, DC</TD><TD></TD><TD>22559524</TD><TD>Trooper </TD><TD>1st Royal Tank Regim... </TD><TD>W EUROPE </TD><TD class=right>31/07/1952 </TD></TR><TR><TD class=center>1</TD><TD>INGRAM, ERIC R</TD><TD></TD><TD>7896379</TD><TD>Trooper </TD><TD>Royal Tank Regiment </TD><TD>MIDDLE EAST </TD><TD class=right>28/03/1943 </TD></TR><TR><TD class=center>1</TD><TD>INGRAM, NORMAN J</TD><TD></TD><TD>149373</TD><TD>Major </TD><TD>Royal Armoured Corps </TD><TD>ITALY </TD><TD class=right>18/09/1944 </TD></TR><TR><TD class=center>1</TD><TD>INGRAM, REX SA</TD><TD></TD><TD>304683</TD><TD>Lieutenant </TD><TD>Royal Armoured Corps </TD><TD>W EUROPE CAMPAIGN 44/45 </TD><TD class=right>13/06/1944 </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

    :poppy:
     
  8. Tom Canning

    Tom Canning WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    Adam - must have scrolled right over it ... Thanks !
     
  9. mrjason

    mrjason Junior Member

    omg i did my basic training right opposit the tank museam
     
  10. Tom Canning

    Tom Canning WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    mrjason -
    you got lucky - you could have gone the Catterick or worse - Barnard Castle !
     

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