It was at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette on the Somme, in September 1916, that tanks first went into action. If there is an originator of the tank it was Lt Col (later Major-General) Sir Ernest ...

I felt that the Tank Museum was the appropriate home for them so we decided to donate them.” When Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty during WWI pushed for ‘landships’ to be ...

Horace Leslie Birks was put in charge of one of these early tanks at Passchendaele. HORACE LESLIE BIRKS: This was the first time I had actually commanded a tank in action, and I was petrified.

Tanks were invented in Britain. Historian Dan Snow describes the earliest versions and charts how they developed and were increasingly used in battle during WW1. We hear how intrigued the British ...