ILLUSTRATIONS

Major-General Hugh Elles, C.B., D.S.O. From a portrait by Sir William Orpen, A.R.A.	[Frontispiece]
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General Arrangements of Mark V. Tank—Front View	[28]
General Arrangement of Mark V. Tank—Sectional Elevation	[28]
General Arrangement of Mark V. Tank—Sectional Plan	[29]
Diagram Showing Adaptation to the “Large-Wheeled Tractor” Idea	[29]
The Original Thiepval Mark I. Tank with Anti-Bomb Roof and “Tail”	[64]
Field Camouflage	[64]
A Derelict. Valley of the Scarpe	[96]
A Burning Tank	[96]
“Direct Hits”	[97]
Bellied on a Tree-Stump and Subsequently Hit	[97]
A Flanders Pill-Box	[132]
The Unditching Beam in Action	[132]
The Steenbeek Valley Before the Battle	[133]
The Steenbeek Valley After Bombardment	[133]
A Deadly Swamp (the Wrecks of Six Tanks May Be Counted)	[144]
“Clapham Junction” Near Sanctuary Wood	[145]
“The Salient”	[145]
Preparing for Cambrai. A Train of Tanks with Fascines in Position	[176]
The Bapaume-Cambrai Road	[177]
A Tank Crushing down the Enemy’s Wire	[177]
Sledge Towing Tank Taking up Supplies	[200]
Bermicourt Chateau near St. Pol. Tank Corps Main Headquarters	[200]
Gun-Carrying Tank Taking up a Howitzer	[201]
A Whippet Going In	[201]
Smoke Screen and Semaphore	[304]
A Tankadrome	[304]
Moving Up. Battle of Amiens	[305]
The Armoured Cars Going Up	[305]
German Anti-Tank Gunners. (From a photograph found on a prisoner)	[336]
An Anti-Tank Gun in a Steel Cupola (Ypres)	[336]
A Captured German Tank	[337]
A German Anti-Tank Rifle	[337]
Infantry Advancing Behind Tanks. A Practice Attack at Bermicourt	[368]
The St. Quentin Canal Tunnel, Bellicourt	[369]
Carrier Pigeon Being Released	[369]
His Majesty the Colonel-in-Chief and General Elles	[384]
Manufacture	[385]
The Western Edge of Mormal Forest	[396]
A “Wireless” Tank	[397]
Map of Tank Operations, August–November, 1918	[416]