GERMAN ANTI-TANK GUNNERS
(FROM A PHOTOGRAPH FOUND ON A PRISONER)
AN ANTI-TANK GUN IN A STEEL CUPOLA (VPRES)
A CAPTURED GERMAN TANK
A GERMAN ANTI-TANK RIFLE
We carried the front line so easily that we soon realised we must be up against a system of defence rather like that which the Germans had adopted at Ypres. He was keeping his reserves well in rear of a lightly-held outpost line, and, as we have said, unknown to us, his guns had been withdrawn in such a way as to cover the railway.
The Armoured Cars and the Whippets both took an active part in the attack on Bucquoy. At the entrance of the village a large crater had been blown in the road over which the armoured cars were hauled, after a smooth path had been beaten down across it by a Whippet. The cars then sped on through the enemy’s lines, reaching Achiet-le-Petit ahead of our infantry, and silenced a number of machine-guns. Two of the cars received direct hits, one of them being burnt and completely destroyed.