"The Tank Museum The Tank Museum (previously The Bovington Tank Museum) is a collection of armoured fighting vehicles at Bovington Camp in Dorset, South West England. It is about north of the village of Wool and west of the major port of Poole. The collection traces the history of the tank. With almost 300 vehicles on exhibition from 26 countries it is the largest collection of tanks and the third largest collection of armoured vehicles in the world. It includes Tiger 131, the only working example of a German Tiger I tank, and a British First World War Mark I,"
"the world's oldest surviving combat tank. It is the museum of the Royal Tank Regiment and the Royal Armoured Corps and is a registered charity. The writer Rudyard Kipling visited Bovington in 1923 and, after viewing the damaged tanks that had been salvaged at the end of the First World War, recommended a museum should be set up. Accordingly a shed was established to house the collection but was not opened to the general public until 1947. George Forty, who was appointed Director of the Museum in 1982, expanded and modernized the collection. He retired in 1993 after which he"
"started on the £300m project in April 2016, and it is intended that the new facilities which are under construction for completion in 2018 will replace those at Headley Court. The Duke remained actively involved in the project until his death. He was Vice-President of the Royal United Services Institute from 1993 until 2012, President of The Tank Museum, Bovington, from 2002, and a committee member of the National Army Museum between 1988–97 and from 2013 until his death. Though much of the Duke’s work supporting community causes close to his home in Cheshire has gone unrecorded, there is one"
"ricocheted into its turret ring, jamming its traverse and wounding the commander. The crew bailed out and the tank was captured.. After repairs, the tank was sent to England for a thorough inspection. The captured tank was officially handed over to the Bovington Tank Museum by the British Ministry of Supply on 25 September 1951. In June 1990, the tank was removed from display at the museum and work began on its restoration. This was carried out both by the museum and the Army Base Repair Organisation and involved an almost complete disassembly of the tank. The Maybach HL230 engine"
"the grounds were used to test the first British tanks. An area was dug with trenches and craters and covered with barbed-wire to represent no man's land and German trench lines on the Western Front. To commemorate this, the only surviving Mark I tank was sited at Hatfield from 1919 until 1970 before being moved to The Tank Museum, Bovington. The Rhodesian Light Infantry Regimental Association has placed its 'Troopie' memorial statue on the grounds of Hatfield House, due to the long association of the Cecil family with Southern Rhodesia. Around its base is a roll of regimental members ('troopies')"
"British Military Vehicles, Wigan, UK, a company that specialises in the restoration of old military vehicles. The replica is constructed of plywood and angle iron, using the engine, transmission and tracks from two Fordson County Crawlers – tracked agricultural vehicles – and is painted to represent A7V number 504, ""Schnuck"". It was purchased by The Tank Museum, Bovington, in November 2012. It is on display inside the Museum, and takes part in outdoor displays alongside the Museum's replica British Mark IV that was constructed for the film War Horse. A static replica is in the Deutsches Panzermuseum in Munster. It"
"a brief insight in to a specific tank in the Museum's collection. In his final year at Bovington, he was awarded an MBE in the Queens New Year's honours list for services to the history of armoured warfare. His publication list is extensive, including 30 books. Many of these are considered to be the standard works on that topic. David Fletcher (military historian) David John Fletcher MBE is a British military historian specialising in the history of armoured warfare, particularly that of the United Kingdom. He was an employee of The Tank Museum, Bovington from 1982 until December 2012, becoming"
"October 1944 to May 1945. The bridgelayer version was also used by the 4th Armoured Brigade of the Australian Army at Bougainville and Balikpapan during the Pacific Campaign in 1945. Additional equipment: A single Covenanter gun–tank is preserved at The Tank Museum, Bovington, in the United Kingdom. It is displayed in the markings it had during the War when it served with the 13th/18th Royal Hussars, part of the 9th Armoured Division. For unknown reasons, it was buried after the war on a farm near Dorking. In 1977 it was discovered, recovered, restored and put on display at the Bovington"
"to 29 Mar 1944. Tannington Tannington is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around ten miles south-east of Diss, in 2005 its population was 110. At the 2011 Census the population had fallen below 100, and not therefore being maintained on this site was included in the civil parish of Brundish. On a late Sunday afternoon in October 1942, a B-17F 42-3506 ""Sir Baboon McGoon"" made a belly landing in a soft and muddy sugar beet field in the village of Tannington after the aircraft had run out of fuel."
"Kingdom. The Bovington collection includes two other Valentines, a Mark II and a Valentine Scissors Bridgelayer. Other examples are displayed at the Imperial War Museum Duxford in the UK; the Royal Military Museum in Brussels, Belgium; the Musée des Blindés, Saumur, France and the Kubinka Tank Museum, Russia; the South African National Museum of Military History. The Cavalry Tank Museum Ahmednagar, India. have a Valentine Tank and a Valentine Bridge Layer. In the United States, the Military Vehicle Technology Foundation and the Virginia Museum of Military Vehicles own Valentines. A number of Valentine hulls are in private ownership in Australia,"
"Mark VIII is at the Royal Australian Armoured Corps Museum. Two (one in running order) are privately owned in the UK. One in running order is under private ownership in the USA. One example, without a trailer, on display at the Bayeux Museum of the Battle of Normandy and one example with a trailer is held at the Bovington Tank Museum. Another one with trailer is on display on Fort Montbarey parade ground in Brest (Brittany); it was gifted to the Memorial by Queen Elizabeth. Churchill Crocodile The Churchill Crocodile was a British flame-throwing tank of late Second World War."
"Tannington Tannington is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around ten miles south-east of Diss, in 2005 its population was 110. At the 2011 Census the population had fallen below 100, and not therefore being maintained on this site was included in the civil parish of Brundish. On a late Sunday afternoon in October 1942, a B-17F 42-3506 ""Sir Baboon McGoon"" made a belly landing in a soft and muddy sugar beet field in the village of Tannington after the aircraft had run out of fuel. The efforts of the"
"at Lulworth. The School became known as the Royal Armoured Corps Centre in 1947, now renamed The Armour Centre. The Armour Centre is home to: It is also home to The Tank Museum. Soldiers and Officers attend stage 2 training at the Armoured Fighting Vehicle Training Group following initial training and undertake courses in gunnery, signals, driving, vehicle maintenance and tactics. The centre also provides through career, and promotion, training for soldiers and officers. The group delivers course through three operating sections; Communications, Gunnery and Driving & Maintenance. The majority of this training is delivered at Bovington Camp with live"
"V tanks in Berlin. Photographic evidence indicates that these were survivors of the Russian Civil War and had previously been displayed as a monument in Smolensk, Russia, before being brought to Berlin after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Accounts of their active involvement in the Battle of Berlin have not been verified. A number of tanks survive, although several are just shells that have had all internal components removed. The largest collection is at The Tank Museum at Bovington in the United Kingdom, which holds eight tanks. Two of these are maintained in running condition, the"
"Covington, Cambridgeshire Covington is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Covington lies approximately west of Huntingdon near to Catworth and close to the county borders with both Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire. Covington is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England. Covington (OE:""Copp-ing-tun"" – The High Pasture Enclosures). The civil parish covers an area of . At the 2011 Census the population of the village was found to be less than 100 and was included in the civil parish of Tilbrook. In 1085 William the Conqueror ordered that"
"of tungsten in the world. Wills Marine make motor inflatable boats off the A379 in Kingsbridge. New Look is in Weymouth; it is Britain's second-biggest value clothing retailer, with over 800 stores in 21 countries. Wytch Farm (BP) is the UK's largest onshore oil field. Meggitt is a leading aerospace and defence contractor, based west of Bournemouth Airport, with Hobbycraft, at a former BAC works in Hurn, close to West Parley. The Royal Armoured Corps is based at Bovington Camp, and next door is the Bovington Tank Museum; the Army has three armoured regiments (Royal Dragoon Guards, Royal Tank Regiment"
"was captured at Anzio by the Americans, and is now part of the United States Army Ordnance Museum's collection at Fort Lee, VA. The example at Fort Lee was restored to display condition in 2007–2008, as documented on the show ""Tank Overhaul"", but not in its original paint scheme. It was announced in 2016 that the Fort Lee Elefant would be loaned to the Bovington Tank Museum in Dorset, UK. The vehicle would be displayed as part of the museum's ""Tiger Collection"" display from April 2017. This display aims to bring all the members of the Tiger family together in"
"Machine Gun Corps which relocated from Norfolk. The Heavy Branch was responsible for the operation of the tank in the British Army. In 1917 the Heavy Branch split from the Machine Gun Corps to become the Tank Corps, with the Depot and Central Schools being based at Bovington. T. E. Lawrence, better known as ""Lawrence of Arabia"", died at the camp after he was fatally injured in a motorcycle accident when he swerved to avoid two boys riding their bikes. In 1937 the Central Schools became the Armoured Fighting Vehicles School, with driving and maintenance training at Bovington and gunnery"
"Cook Location: Shropshire. DPF 432 along with her sister Freighter BPL 73 was withdrawn from service with Epsom & Ewell Council but instead of making a final trip to the scrapyard was stored by the Council. Eventually the building they were stored in was to be demolished. DPF 432 was in poorer condition than BPL 73 and passed into the hands of a private enthusiast. When restoration of the Freighter proved to be beyond this individual's resources he donated the vehicle to the East Anglia Transport Museum near Lowestoft with the intention that the Museum should undertake the restoration. There"
"Lidlington Lidlington is a small village and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire, England surrounded by farmland, in the Marston Vale. The hamlets of Boughton End and Thrupp End are also part of the parish. The village has an unusual Gothic-style church built by the Duke of Bedford in 1845 and a thatched pub on its High Street. Lidlington is set on the Southern part of the vale's 'basin'. The village has a lower school for 5–9 year olds named after Thomas Johnson, a Dick Whittington-type character who was Lord Mayor of London in 1840-41. Brogborough Lake (also known as Lidlington"
"Mark IV Male, ""Excellent"" and Mark V Male number ""9199"". ""Excellent"" last ran in the 1980s and ""9199"" in the 2000s. The Bovington museum does not intend to run them again, due to the wear and tear that would be inflicted on the now-fragile, historic vehicles. Instead, the museum acquired a replica Mark IV tank (constructed for the film ""War Horse""), which is used for public demonstrations. Little Willie survives at the Bovington Tank Museum. It was saved from being scrapped in 1940 on the pretext that it was helping to defend Bovington base against possible German attacks. Many other"
"maintenance, is in rough working order. Stevington Stevington is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Bedford in northern Bedfordshire, England. It is on the River Great Ouse four to five miles northwest of Bedford. Nearby villages include Bromham, Oakley, Pavenham and Turvey. West End lies northwest of the village, and forms part of the same civil parish. The village has a fine Mediaeval Church as well as a number of listed buildings spanning the centuries.The first church on this site was probably a wooden building constructed during the Anglo Saxon period between 886 and 1016; this was"
"Bennington, Vermont Bennington is a town in Bennington County, Vermont, in the United States. It is one of two shire towns (county seats) of the county, the other being Manchester. The population is 15,431, as of 2014 US Census estimates. Bennington is the most populous town in southern Vermont, the third-largest town in Vermont (after Essex and Colchester) and the sixth-largest municipality in the state including the cities of Burlington, Rutland, and South Burlington in the count. The town is home to the Bennington Battle Monument, which is the tallest human-made structure in the state of Vermont. The town has"
"Essington Essington is a village and civil parish in South Staffordshire, England. It is considered by the Office for National Statistics to be part of the Wolverhampton Urban Subdivision, and is within the West Midlands conurbation. The village of Essington is small and of comparatively recent build, although there are the remains of several moated farmsteads, probably of iron-age origin, on the land adjacent to the village's current boundaries. There is a public park called Brownshore Lakes (known locally as the pools), which is the site of two adjacent lakes. They are the remains of three coal mining tailing and"
"Stevington Stevington is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Bedford in northern Bedfordshire, England. It is on the River Great Ouse four to five miles northwest of Bedford. Nearby villages include Bromham, Oakley, Pavenham and Turvey. West End lies northwest of the village, and forms part of the same civil parish. The village has a fine Mediaeval Church as well as a number of listed buildings spanning the centuries.The first church on this site was probably a wooden building constructed during the Anglo Saxon period between 886 and 1016; this was later replaced by a stone building."
"and is used for the transportation of potash and rock salt. Boulby Boulby is a village in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England, located within the North York Moors National Park. Boulby was in the North Riding of Yorkshire until 1964, followed by the county of Cleveland until 1996. It is located just off the A174 near Easington, and 1 mile west of Staithes. The village was the site of alum mining activity in years past, and is currently the site of Boulby mine, a site run by Cleveland Potash Limited which"
"Bobbington Bobbington is a village and civil parish in the South Staffordshire district of Staffordshire, England, about west of Wombourne. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 506, increasing to 588 at the 2011 Census. Bobbington is just on the county border with Shropshire (to the west), and is about east of Bridgnorth in Shropshire. It is only about west of the border with West Midlands, and during World War II was home to Bobbington airfield, renamed during the war as Halfpenny Green, and now known as Wolverhampton Halfpenny Green Airport. In recent years Bobbington has seen"
"favour in the commuter culture being roughly equidistant from many of the regions business centres Wolverhampton () Dudley (), Stourbridge () and Bridgnorth (). Bobbington Bobbington is a village and civil parish in the South Staffordshire district of Staffordshire, England, about west of Wombourne. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 506, increasing to 588 at the 2011 Census. Bobbington is just on the county border with Shropshire (to the west), and is about east of Bridgnorth in Shropshire. It is only about west of the border with West Midlands, and during World War II was home"
"Bowburn Bowburn is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated about to the south-east of Durham, on the A177, between Coxhoe to the south-east, and High Shincliffe to the north-west. It is part of the Cassop-cum-Quarrington parish. Originally a small farming hamlet, named after the shape of the small burn that runs through it, Bowburn's history, like that of many other villages in the region, is linked closely to coal mining. Several coal mines were sunk in the area during the 19th century but extensive development did not begin until an entirely new Bowburn Colliery began to be"
"Bavington Bavington is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of (2001)99. The population taken at the 2011 census remained less than 100. Information is therefore included in the parish of Kirkwhelpington.The village is north of Hexham, and about the same west from Morpeth. Bavington is in the parliamentary constituency of Hexham. Bavington (anciently ""Babington"") was the original seat of the prominent Babington family, originally ""de Babington"". In 1794, the Northumberland mathematician and astronomer Henry Atkinson began running Bavington school when he was only thirteen. According to John Stokoe in"
"at The Tank Museum in Bovington, UK. Excelsior tank The Tank, Heavy Assault, A33 (Excelsior) was a British experimental heavy tank based on the Cromwell (A27) design developed in the Second World War. It was developed when there were concerns as to performance of the Churchill tank. After the Dieppe Raid in August 1942, there was concern that the Churchill infantry tank was slow and too unreliable and it was suggested that production of the Churchill stop in 1943 in order to manufacture more of the A27 (Cromwell) design which was performing well in trials. While two lines of tanks"
"his ""Songs and Ballads of Northern England” (1893), the song Bobby Shaftoe is connected by tradition with one of the Shaftoes of Bavington, who ran away to sea to escape the attentions of a lady of beauty and fortune. The poet Kathleen Raine spent her younger days living in the manse in Great Bavington. Bavington Bavington is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of (2001)99. The population taken at the 2011 census remained less than 100. Information is therefore included in the parish of Kirkwhelpington.The village is north of"
"Bobbingworth Bobbingworth is a village and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex, England. The village is situated approximately north-west from Chipping Ongar, west from the county town of Chelmsford, and lies off the A414 road. Bobbingworth is in the parliamentary constituency of Brentwood & Ongar. Bobbingworth covers an area of . According to the 2011 Census the parish had a population of 280. A notable building in Bobbingworth is Blake Hall, which, after the bombing of the North Weald Aerodrome in September 1940 (during the Second World War) became the R.A.F. Station Headquarters. Blake Hall tube station,"