Rlangham Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 Hinckley used to have a Mk IV Female Tank from 7th February 1921 onwards - in my home town (i'm about 2 miles from Hinckley) there was a German field gun in the park, it was buried and the location is now a kiddies sandpit - anyone got a spare shovel? And an article on it - although it says it served in France, just about every presentation tank was claimed to have seen service, whereas the vast majority were only used as training tanks at Bovington - the lack of ditching rails on the top of the tank seems to reinforce this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 I was down at St Michaels Mount in Cornwall many years ago and on the main land was a plaque stating that this WW1 German Howitzer was presented to the town in 1919. The gun though was a WW2 5.5" howitzer. I presume the WW1 one was taken away for scrap and then replaced at the end of the war with the 5.5". Tim (too) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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