Re: [MV] BURIED BRITISH TANK

Nigel Hay (NIGELHAY@tanksrus.freeserve.co.uk)
Sat, 21 Nov 1998 09:30:21 -0000

I was in driving a truck back from Germany listening to that bastion of
civilisation ,British Forces Radio,a couple of weeks ago when the news
broke.They managed to get the Frenchman who found it on a live link with a
very knowledgable interviewer.He suggested it would stay at Cambrai and they
would build a building around it to preserve it in as found condition to
allow people to viist it.. And thats exactly what should happen. he spent 10
years looking for it,it is still not totally dug out yet.

Until about 15 years ago there was one left at high Wood on the Somme,on a
farmers land-he would not allow access to it and we believe it was
scrapped.Unless anyone knows different.......
We had the Bovington MK4 Male tank at The War and Peace Show last year-but
it did not unfortunately move in the aremna,but was in a special display
marquee- very impressive.

There is a local story here about some WW2 tanks parked up on very soft
grass and some British soldiers who decided to get underneath the tanks to
sleep rather than get back to the camp after a night out.The story goes
thatb the tanks slowly sunk down into the grass ,killing 2 men who got
trapped as they slept.
-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Greville <dgrev@apollo.ruralnet.net.au>
To: Rod Diery <rod@rocketship.com>; Skylee <mil-veh@skylee.com>
Date: 21 November 1998 08:54
Subject: Re: [MV] BURIED BRITISH TANK

>Rod
>
>> PARIS
>>
>> TANK DUG UP
>
>> Does anyone on the list know anything further about this find?
>
>Yep, it was just on the news about 10 minutes ago. They said it is a
>MkIV Male. It looks in exactly the condition you would expect for
>something that was in a WW1 battle, got knocked out, put in a hole and
>used as a bunker. But, beggers can't be choosers!
>Now that's what I would call a real veteran vehicle.
>
>Very,very, rusty, 2 metres under the surface and with extensive damage,
>partiularly to the rear sprockets and tail area.
>
>They also appear to have found an instant collection of British tin
>helmets and some better preserved German "Coal Scuttle" helmets
>(complete with forard armour mounting studs).
>
>That tank really does look far gone - pity, but knowing the climate
>of France it is unrealistic to hope to find a restorable vehicle.
>
>They intend to clean it up and make a memorial out of it.
>
>Regards
>Doug
>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Armoured Vehicles Collector
> _______
> _/_(_o_)_\_ ____
> _/|___|_|___|\_ /____\
> / [___] [___] \ Douglas Greville _/[o]___\_
> /\_ [o] [o] _/\ Broken Hill __/=_|____|_=\__
> |w||___________||w| N.S.W. /__\__________/__\
> |w|\u u/|w| Australia |w| \ / |w|
> |w| \_________/ |w| |w|$ \______/ $|w|
> [w] [w] [w] [w]
> M8 Ferret
>
> dgrev@ruralnet.net.au
>
>Web Armour site at: http://Fast.to/DG
>
>(http://members.xoom.com/dgrev/index.html)
>
>===
>To unsubscribe from the mil-veh mailing list, send the single word
>UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of a message to <mil-veh-request@skylee.com>.
>

===
To unsubscribe from the mil-veh mailing list, send the single word
UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of a message to <mil-veh-request@skylee.com>.