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From Illustrated London News

British Tanks: No. 1 Infantry (Heavy) Tank Mark IIA

Heavy Tanks in Action: An Explanatory Drawing of “Matilda” and some of her Sisters
Armoured fighting vehicles are playing an ever-increasing part in the war, and may be roughly divided into two classes: armoured cars running on pneumatic-tyres wheels, troop-carriers, lorries, and, in the second section, the tracked vehicles, including tanks of all types, Bren-gun carriers, and so forth. With the help and co-operation of the War Department, our special artist has been enabled to show the layout and interior mechanism of modern British tanks, though, for obvious reasons, certain of the latest developments cannot be shown in these diagrammatic drawings. The navy tank illustrated above, used to go forward with the infantry, is not so speedy a vehicle as the “light” and “cruiser” types, but is very heavily armoured against machine-guns, anti-tank guns and artillery. Affectionately known in the Service as “Matilda”, it weighs twenty-five tons, is driven by two Diesel motors and, unlike the smaller tanks, has a self-changing gear-box. Its crew consists of four men: the commander - usually of commissioned rank - the gunner, the loader, who also operates the wireless equipment, and the driver, who sits in his little steel-walled pen, separated from the other members of the crew, and steers the machine by means of two track-controlling levers. Owing to the noise and clatter of the tank as it thuds its inexorable way over rough ground, and the din of cable, commands are given by telephone, and all tanks are in touch with each other by wireless. Though an English invention, the Germans developed the tank for modern tactics, but our own models are to-day second to none.


British Tanks: No. 2 Cruiser (Medium) Tank Mark IVA


British Tanks: No. 3 Light Tank Mark VIB

 

From Illustrated London News

The Four Principal Types of German Tank: Heavy and Light Mechanical Cavalry


Tank and Anti-Tank Guns: A Comparison of Shells, Guns, and Armoury of the Allies and Axis Powers


British and American Fighting Vehicles: Some of the Wheel and Track Vehicles in the Front Line


Mechanised Warfare on Land: The Tanks go into action


Panzer Types: German and Italian Tanks opposing ours in Libya


Night Defence: A Zebra or Laager - Old Words with new meanings


Warfare on Wheels: Mechanised and Mobile Units of the Modern British Army


Money and Munitions: An Illustrated Armament Catalogue


Finns v. Russian Tanks: Bombing from Pits under the Snow

 

From Illustrated London News

When Oil Fails: Stranded German Tanks as Fortified Posts


The Sharp Point of a Spearhead: British Armour and Airborne Troops piercing the Defences of a Village


Tank Warfare in the Battle of Libya: Manoeuvring for Position


The Interior of a British Infantry Tank Turret of the type used in Libya: An Impression from Behind the Gunner


Fast Infantry Tanks as used in the Battle of Sidi Barrani: Armoured Land “Cruisers” Roar into Action


The Mobile Element in the Defence of Britain: A Flying Column of Motor-Cyclists and Armoured Cars.


The Tank is not Invincible: Weaknesses show up the Vulnerability of German Panzer Divisions


Libyan Battlefield

 

From Illustrated London News

Modern Battle: The Victory of the Roer Triangle by the British 2nd Army - No. 1: The Crossing of the Vloed Beek


Modern Battle: The British Victory of the Roer Triangle - No. 2: The Artificial Moonlight Battle for Montfort


Modern Battle: The British Victory of the Roer Triangle - No. 6: The Cavalry-Commando Charge at Linne

 

From Illustrated London News

A Lancashire Fusiliers V.C.: Fusilier Jefferson, Single-handed, Breaking up an Enemy Tank Attack


The “V.C. Battery” The Epic Stand of 133 Field Battery at Sidi Nsir, who fought to the Last Gun and Man.


One example of the Gallant Acts for which Lt.-Col. R.R. Foote, DSO, has been decorated with the V.C.