Deal Tank and other WW1 tanks on display

Evening all,

A colleague has asked for help re. the 1st War tank and ?field gun photographed here beside Deal Castle in Kent. One photo appears to be dated 1938. Somebody on another forum thinks that the tank was placed in 1919 and removed for scrap in 1936:
WWI Tanks in Kent

What is for sure, is that the tank was certainy not the only one in Kent during the inter-war period. I have done a bit of Googling around but cannot find much out there at all. What my colleague would really like to know is when it was placed, when it was removed and for what reason? I realise this is bit of tall ask but nothing ventured....

The tank appears to be a ?late MkIV with fascine rails and was located at about NGR TR 377 522.

Deal Castle:
Deal Castle : Kent : South East : Find a property by map : Properties : Days Out & Events : English Heritage

Deal Castle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thanks in advance for any contributions.

CS










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Not Kent, but there was one at Eastbourne; I remember seeing a letter in the local rag c.1937-38 calling for it to be removed as it might lead enemy bombers to think the town was a military target. I suspect that it went during the wartime scrap metal drive, but have nothing to hand that can confirm it.

Pete

 

VP, thanks mate, that is above and beyond the call of duty. I didn't actuallly go to Deal with TG but remember looking at the Duke of Wellington's death chair in some awe as a youngster.

Gaspirator, thanks for your input, perhaps one day we might find what became of the Eastbourne tank.

H

 

As has already been stated, many tanks were presented to towns all over the country in the years after WW1 - 1919/20 is likely. Many of them however are long gone, some in particular were used for scrap during WW2

I do remember reading a few threads on them over on the GWF (great war forum)

The only one I have seen in recent years is at Ashford, Kent




EDIT: having just had a quick look on t'Internet, this site suggests the Ashford Tank is the only one left, and they were all scrapped in the 20s and 30s - not sure how true that is

Projects - Friends of the Lincoln Tank


EDIT2: some info on the Ashford tank, and some more details on 'the presentation tanks'

Ashford.gov.uk - The Tank

 

As has already been stated, many tanks were presented to towns all over the country in the years after WW1 - 1919/20 is likely. Many of them however are long gone, some in particular were used for scrap during WW2

I do remember reading a few threads on them over on the GWF (great war forum)

The only one I have seen in recent years is at Ashford, Kent




EDIT: having just had a quick look on t'Internet, this site suggests the Ashford Tank is the only one left, and they were all scrapped in the 20s and 30s - not sure how true that is

Projects - Friends of the Lincoln Tank


EDIT2: some info on the Ashford tank, and some more details on 'the presentation tanks'

Ashford.gov.uk - The Tank

Outside of museums etc I think that is correct: the Ashford tank is the only 'public' 1st war tank left.

H

 

Ta. Vague recollections of a German held example in Berlin in ?1945 on this forum.

I see there are a couple at Kubinka (naturally...) although they are described as Mark Vs:
American, British tanks. War War One, World War Two, Cold War

 

We're wondering off the trophy tanks handed out by the war savings, hopefully we'll return to them, but...
That's one of Bovington's real claims to fame; nowhere else in the world can you browse through such a fine collection of WW1 Tanks. And even sit inside one, to have a bit of a think about what it must have been like.
Now if only the Aussies would lend them 'Mephisto' (The sole genuine A7V survivor) to complete the set, we'd have something even more worth a visit .

Back on track.
Lovely poster promoting 'The Tank Tour' carried out by the War Savings Committee as an earlier part of their business, when the machines were tru ndled round the country raising cash. (sourced from the Library of Congress, who seem to have a nice collection of images of British WSC posters) :
World War one - Economic & industrial aspects --Great Britain



That is a nice poster. I was also impressed by the 'Lend your Country Five Shillings and Crush the Germans' poster in the Library of Congress Collection. Why are the Americans so good about getting stuff on line?

 

This thread reminds me of a WW1 tank used as a Memorial on a concrete plinth situated in Windermere.
As a young boy in the late 50's I remember trips by train to Windermere and when walking down the main road towards Boness there was a small Memorial Park with the Tank situated on the left hand side of the road.

This link AFTER THE CONFLICT - Cumbrian War Memorials: Great War Tanks in Cumbria and elsewhere

Shows a WW1 tank being cut up well before the date I mentioned.

Anyone out there that can confirm that I am not going crazy

Regards
Tom

 

British tank Britannia on 5th ave New york , to aid Liberty Loan Drive

{The First World War - A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY} 1933 Daily Express Publications.



This book is a record from start to finnish of the great war from both sides, Most of the pictures have very few words to them.
Brian

 

Hi,

As a fairly regular visitor (patient) to Lincoln Hospital I noticed a photograph of a bed called "The Tank Bed".

Next time I'm in I'll try and get a snapshot.


Regards, Mick D.

 

We had a very quick run round the Musem of Lincolnshire Life last weekend. I hadn't realised it was housed in the old militia barracks - it was worth it just for that - but the main draw was to have a look at Flirt II / Daphne. It may not be truly 'public' but it's free to access. Having been loaned to the city by Bovvy it's sort of in the spirit of the thread.