British Mark IV 'Female' (Blarney Castle), Fontaine Notre Dame, November 1917

            Divided reverse. Letter translated by xiphophilos, authored in the front lines on New Year's Eve 1917, the author bemoans life at the front to his parents.

One of the most photographed tanks of the war "Blarney Castle", a Mk IV 'female' sits where it was knocked-out by truck-borne German artillery in Fontaine Notre Dame, about 4 kilometres West of Cambrai. The entrance hole of the armour-piercing round that turned the tank's interior into an inferno, can be seen just forward of the port sponson.

The British tanks suffered 70% casualties during the ill-fated attack on Fontaine-Notre-Dame on 23 November largely thanks to the accuracy of the German gunners using their anti-aircraft guns in an anti-tank role for the first time.

Taken in: France / Nord-Pas-de-Calais / Cambrai (show map)

Taken on: September 2, 2020

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Sets appears in: • Grüße aus dem Schützengraben • Tanks

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