[TANK AND INFANTRY COOPERATION] [Allocated]


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  • Other title(s): [TANK AND INFANTRY COOPERATION] [Allocated]
  • Year: 1918
  • Runtime: 14 mins
  • Description: Two Mark IV tanks, a Male "HMLS Daisy" and a Female "HMLS Dauntless" practise trench-crossing (some of the material is shot from inside the trench). A Mark IV command tank, waving a flag, leads other Mark IVs forward. Back with the trench-crossing trials. A brief shot of a Mark I Male tank in camouflage. A Mark IV Male advances on some 'Germans' who 'surrender' as it approaches them, being led off by supporting Infantry. More Infantry advance supported by a Mark IV tank. Shells burst around a command tank. A platoon of Infantry in battle order poses for the camera; a line of Tank Corps men also pose, first by themselves then on top of their tank. A barbed wire entanglement with 'shell-bursts' coming closer (in fact a fuse burning from one charge to another). Infantry advance in artillery formation up to the wire, then signal to a tank which advances over the wire, crushing lanes for the Infantry to advance. More shots of Mark IV tanks manoeuvring around.
    Tank and Infantry cooperation trials, probably in Britain, late 1918.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army / British Army, Royal Tank Corps / armour, British - tank: Tank Mark IV / armour, British - tank: Tank Mark I / training, British military - combat / combat [simulated], British - tank / 31/3(41) / GB, England
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound

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