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The Tank Museum (previously the Bovington Tank Museum) is a collection of armoured fighting vehicles at Bovington Camp in Dorset, South West England. It is about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the village of Wool and 12 miles (19 km) west of the major port of Poole. The collection traces the history of the tank with almost 300 vehicles on display.
David Fletcher hosted a regular video series on The Tank Museum's YouTube channel called 'Tank Chats', in which he gave viewers a brief insight in to a specific tank in the Museum's collection. [5] [6] [7] In his final year at Bovington, he was appointed an MBE in the Queens New Year's honours list for services to the history of armoured ...
Constructed in the autumn of 1915 at the behest of the Landship Committee, it was the first completed tank prototype in history. Little Willie is the oldest surviving individual tank, and is preserved as one of the most famous pieces in the collection of The Tank Museum, Bovington, England.
The tank was transferred to what is today known as The Tank Museum by the British Ministry of Supply on 25 September 1951 where it was given the accession number 2351 (later E1951.23). In 1990 the tank was removed from display for a joint restoration effort by the staff and the Army Base Repair Organisation , which involved its almost complete ...
The Bovington Mark II tank, F53 The Flying Scotsman. There is a single more or less complete surviving Mark II, F53: The Flying Scotsman, at the Bovington Tank Museum (see below). This tank still has battle damage sustained at the Battle of Arras in April 1917. This vehicle was originally a Male, had been rebuilt as a supply vehicle, was ...
There is another at the Royal Engineers museum in Chatham. Churchill Crocodile at Southsea. Churchill AVRE – The collection at The Tank Museum, Bovington includes a working Mark III Churchill AVRE. Another example is located in a hamlet of Graye-sur-Mer in Normandy; it is unusual in having been buried on D-Day in the shell-hole it fell into ...
Bovington Tank Museum 50°41′42″N 2°14′33″W / 50.6949°N 2.2424°W / 50.6949; -2.2424 ( Royal Tank Regiment Memorial ( Vivien Mallock after George Henry Paulin
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