🌺 “Killed in the World’s First Tank Battle” The Story of Corporal Gerald Edmonds Pattinson, Machine Gun Corps (Heavy Branch) 🌺 Gerald Edmonds Pattinson was born in 1885 in Sunderland. He was the younger son of Charles Reginald Pattinson and Helene Fredericke Pattinson — his mother having been born in Hamburg. Before the war, Gerald was not a soldier. He was a merchant mariner. He qualified as a marine engineer in South Shields in 1910 and worked the long routes between Great Britain and Austra

The Tanks at Flers: An Account of The First Use of Tanks in War. The Battle of Flers-Courcelette, The Somme, 15 September 1916. Updated and republished by The Tank Museum as a boxed collector’s edition. First published in 1995, get your republished copy today. 📫️Shipping in time for Christmas. 🔗https://tankmuseumshop.org/products/pre-order-the-tanks-at-flers🔗 | The Tank Museum

Battle of Flers-Courcelette, 16-22 September 1916 in the Great War

Exactly 100 years ago, tanks went into action for the first time at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, part of the Somme offensive, changing the nature of warfare forever. Historian Dan Snow and Lieutenant Colonel Simon Ridgway Royal Tank Regiment discuss the bravery of those very first tank crews and celebrate the world-leading innovation of our Armed forces. More on the history http://bit.ly/tank-100 | British Army