ILLUSTRATIONS
Reading edition
Major-General Hugh Elles, C.B., D.S.O. From a portrait by Sir William Orpen, A.R.A. Frontispiece
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